The scientist at the centre of "climategate" says he contemplated killing himself after leaked e-mails were seized on by sceptics.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Professor Phil Jones also said he had been provoked into sending the e-mails.
It was claimed the e-mails, leaked after a University of East Anglia server was hacked into, showed climate data was being manipulated.
Prof Jones, 57, said he had received death threats over the incident.
He told the newspaper: "I did think about it, yes. About suicide. I thought about it several times, but I think I've got past that stage now."
He agreed it became his "David Kelly moment" - a reference to the scientist who killed himself in the aftermath of the "sexed up" Iraq intelligence dossier claims.
Internet leak
Professor Jones, 57, also said he received death threats in the aftermath of the scandal.
"People said I should go kill myself. They said they knew where I lived."
The row erupted last December when hundreds of messages between scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and their peers around the world were put on the internet along with other documents.
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