Pity!

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/08/climate.change/index.html

London, England (CNN) -- The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.

In an interview with British newspaper, Phil Jones, the former director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia said he had thought about killing himself "several times" after receiving death threats in the wake of the "climategate" scandal.

"I was shocked. People said I should go and kill myself. They said that they knew where I lived. They were coming from all over the world," Jones told the The Sunday Times.

E-mails to and from Jones were among around 1,000 e-mails that made their way from East Anglia University onto the Internet last November. Jones has stepped aside while an inquiry examines the contents of the e-mails and how they came to be public knowledge.

The e-mails' release just weeks before the United Nations Climate Summit in December was seen as a blow to efforts to agree a global deal on climate change. The summit ended on December 18 with what was widely seen as a weak document that fell far short of its original aims in reducing global carbon emissions.

Submitted by Ognir on Mon, 2010-02-08 13:36

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