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JonGwynne has yet to respond to the request. However, he just added the following comment:
to the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/JonGwynne page [2] -Vsmith 18:51, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I present the discusion at Talk:Medieval Warm Period, in particular the sections: WMC playing partisan games again and Time for civility.The post by William M. Connolley 15:20, 17 Feb 2005 called for an end to incivility to which I added a follow-up post. JonGwynne responded in a typically rude and uncivil manner. His response to my discussion of what civil discourse consists of, indicates a lack of comprehension on his part or a simple unwillingness to abide by the rules. In particular he found my comment Civility also includes fair, honest and descriptive edit summaries. to be puzzeling - suggesting to me that the concepts of fairness, honesty, and trust are not important to him and deceptive edit summaries are somehow OK. Vsmith 14:02, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Sorry, the wikicrash has delayed all this. Evidence a bit later: in the meantime I've commented on JG's response: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/JonGwynne/Response to JG.
In addition to the evidence presented in the original complaint:
JG is clearly a "global warming skeptic". In and of itself, there is nothing much wrong with that: several other editors here who I respect and cooperate with (most obviously User:Silverback) would probably accept the label of skeptic. However, JG consistently edits towards minimising anything that looks like it might make CO2 (or any other man-made gas) important and maximises the effects of natural GHG's (water vapour).
Some mention needs to be made of the RFC's Wikipedia:Requests for comment/JonGwynne and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/William M. Connolley. I don't think that these get formally voted on, but I "won" them both numerically: 4.5 to 2 on JG; and 11.5 to 7.5 on WMC (I'm counting partials as halves). However, they made no difference to his editing behaviour (I assert that I have softened mine somewhat). I'd also like to draw the attention of the arbitrators to the strong statements in my support on the RFC: [25] and the "outside view"s.