Climategate: Jones admits to 'awful emails'

Channel 4 News
"Professor Phil Jones, the scientist at the centre of the Climategate row, has been defending himself in front of a group of MPs over a series of emails he sent.Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research UnitThe professor was challenged about an email to a climate change sceptic, in which he admits he doesn't want to send him data because he was worried it would be misused. The emails were leaked after a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked last year.They seemed to suggest data was being manipulated, and it is claimed they show Professor Jones had deleted some data. But in front of the Commons science and technology committee Professor Jones said most were taken out of context. "