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Climatologist Phil Jones answers his critics in an exclusive interview with Nature.

More arrows are being hurled at the inquiry into the ‘climate-gate’ emails.

Amid the thousands of stolen emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, posted on websites late last year, a telling exchange among the scientists has been largely overlooked.

The two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments.

Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. panel he leads face accusations of scientific sloppiness and conflicts of interest.

The IPCC web page with the reports and the news

In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation.

I predicted that a new public accountability narrative about climate scientists had been locked in by the "ClimateGate" controversy and that each successive event such as the dispute over the Himalayan glacier data would be re-interpreted and amplified through this lens.

With climate-change sceptics waiting to pounce on any scientific uncertainties, researchers need a sophisticated strategy for communication.

The British public has become increasingly sceptical about climate change, a poll for BBC News suggests.