Under close questioning by a Parliamentary committee today, Professor Phil Jones said it was not 'standard practice' in climate science to release data and methodology so that other scientists could check and challenge the research.
"The point, in climate science," he added, "for a climate scientist, is to be the only one who is unquestionably right about climate science. There would be no point at all in wasting time with colleagues' world-wide nit picking and other ways of composing statistics. People who wish to check my findings are not themselves Climate Scientists, and will simply have to lie quietly until the urge to challenge my results passes."