ClimateGate Update: CRU Director Stepping Down Pending Investigation

If ClimateGate is no big deal, why is Phil Jones stepping down pending the outcome of an investigation?

Britain’s University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

The university says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that he worked to alter the way in which global temperature data was presented.