Goodbye Mr. Chips-Jones

Just your run of the mill absent-minded professor. Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995:

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

You know, you could sort of forgive this in an English professor, uh professor of English, but in a scientist this is unforgivable. I mean, what's the point?

P.S. Via the Instapundit, Viscount Monckton takes a victory lap!