Phil Jones, central figure in the climategate scandal and one of the IPCC’s top climate scientists, is temporarily stepping down from his position as Director of the University of East Aglia’s Climate Research Unit. Most of the emails in the climategate were either sent to or from Jones. Research coming from Jone’s shop at the CRU has formed the foundation of many of the alarmist claims that have been made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).