Short Sharp Science: 'Climategate' scientist attacks bloggers

Fred Pearce, environment consultant In a flurry of interviews in recent days, the scientist at the heart of the "climategate" affair has broken a 12-week silence about the controversy that followed the publication of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. Phil Jones, who has temporarily stood aside as the unit's director, admitted to the journal Nature that his