Or so says Der Spiegel here.
Life has become “awful” for Phil Jones. Just a few months ago, he
was a man with an enviable reputation: the head of the Climate Research
Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, an
expert in his field and the father of an alarming global temperature
curve that apparently showed how the Earth was heating up as a result
of anthropogenic global warming.
Those days are now gone.
Nowadays, Jones, who is at the center of the “Climategate” affair
involving hacked CRU emails, needs medication to fall sleep. He feels a
constant tightness in his chest. He takes beta-blockers to help him get
through the day. He is gaunt and his skin is pallid. He is 57, but he
looks much older. He was at the center of a research scandal that hit
him as unexpectedly as a rear-end collision on the highway.His days are now shaped by investigative commissions at the
university and in the British Parliament. He sits on his chair at the
hearings, looking miserable, sometimes even trembling. The Internet is
full of derisive remarks about him, as well as insults and death threats. “We know where you live,” his detractors taunt.
