Phil Jones’s BBC interview finally makes an appearance . . . on the Freakonomics blog. No, there’s no mention of Jones’s admissions about the Medieval Warming Period or the fact that the planet hasn’t warmed since the nineties (as several readers point out in the comments), but they do at least provide a link.

Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal, answers questions from the BBC. In the interview, Jones maintains that he never intended to “trick” the public about global warming or subvert the academic peer-review process. He also clears up some confusion about the global warming record, confirming that the warming rates for the periods of 1860-1880, 1910-1940, and 1975-1998 “are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.” While the scandal has provided plenty of fodder for global warming skeptics, Jones says he’s “100% confident that the climate has warmed.”