Guardian: Professor Phil Jones,the pivotal figure in the ‘Climategate’ affair, is to assume the newly created post of director of research in the Climatic Research Unit, following his exoneration by the Russell review, the University of East Anglia said today. Jones stood down from his role as director of the university’s Climatic Research Unit in November 2009 after an inquiry was announced into questions raised by the hacking and publication online of 13 years of emails between the professor and his …