In the e-mail messages,
Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in England, discussed removing papers from the unit's research that raise questions about global warming and the environmental consequences he and other researchers predict.
"I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
In another, Jones talked about completing a "trick" to "hide the decline" in recent temperature data.
In a statement issued Tuesday, Jones said he is stepping down so that the research can continue without the controversy about his statements.
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