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Climategate: The Ongoing Search for Peer Review

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  January 26th, 2010 at 06:44 PM  | 

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I hear they’re telling a joke at the International Panel on Climate Change: Knock knock. Who’s there? Peer Review. Peer Review who? Your guess is as good as mine.

But seriously, I thought it was bad enough when a single reference to a piece of speculative fiction about Himalayan glaciers made it into a “peer-reviewed” IPCC report. But it turns out to be a trend. Says the Telegraph via Hot Air, in reference to another outlandish prediction:

At first sight, the reference looks kosher enough but, following it through, one sees:

Rowell, A. and P.F. Moore, 2000: Global Review of Forest Fires. WWF/IUCN,
Gland, Switzerland, 66 pp. http://www.iucn.org/themes/fcp/publications
/files/global_review_forest_fires.pdf.

This, then appears to be another WWF report, carried out in conjunction with the IUCN – The International Union for Conservation of Nature.

One can only imagine how many more references to activist groups are lurking in this and other IPCC literature. It’s as though the IPCC creates its works without anybody ever giving anything a critical evaluation, making Peer Review a truly Orwellian expression and IPCC our very own Minisci, producing as much science as Miniluv produced love.

Don’t laugh. The reverberations in the IPCC’s echo chamber might damage some eardrums.

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  • buzzyboop

    I hearken back to last November when Ed Begley, Jr. flipped out on Stuart Varney, who was guest-hosting for Cavuto on Fox News. I happened to be watching, and every other word that came out of Begley’s mouth was “peer review.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1-lg9dLps

    So how ’bout that peer review, Ed?

    Cheers, Frank

  • jayburd

    This guy is the Indian version of Al Gore- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7005963/Taxpayers-millions-paid-to-Indian-institute-run-by-UN-climate-chief.html

  • dimbulb

    This, then appears to be another WWF report,

    The World Wrestling Federation is now doing climate reports for the UN? I knew it! Only the comically entrepreneurial mind of Vince McMahon could concoct such a lucrative facade and sell it as reality.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    The Himalaya reference was a major one in justifying hatred and extraction of billions from Americans in perpetuity. They said the Himalayas fed 7 major river systems that provided water to 40% of the world’s population. A few days later the biggest basis for the impending ‘natural disasters’ claim was similarly discredited, crashing the largest excuse for climate reparations (for sinking island nations and the like). With exposure of numerous WWF references, a recalculation of the EPA ruling should obviously be demanded along with the 2007 5-4 Supreme court ruling. The EPA ruling relied on IPCC information that was not adequately reviewed. All the money in the world is still behind this. In recent days a top GOP pollster Frank Luntz has hired himself out to the Environmental Defense Fund to help them convince republicans that global warming and cap and trade are good, telling them better ways of wording things and the like. There are several articles about this. In advocating programs proven to be fraudulent, Mr. Luntz appears to be no better than ranting equatorial dictators in Copenhagen out to stiff Americans.

  • Scope

    I posted a comment earlier today about Luntz and Luntz’s Duntz’s. In particular, I remember him talking to a bunch of his people who thought Fred Thompson did the best job in a Republican debate, yet, the vote was for someone else. He didn’t earn Luntz and Luntz’s Duntz’s for no reason. Looks like his gravy train is about as dried up as Global Warming.

    The part that really bothers me the most is that the credible scientists are now going to be seen as discredited as the phoney’s. It will take years before anyone believes anything that is supposedly “peer reviewed.” What a great win for the Communists, and, in particular the one that got cheated out of “inventing the internet.” Where is the Goreacle lately anyway?

  • kyoufuu

    But the problem is that in all of climate science, peer review is nothing more than an echo chamber. All these researchers know each other and hold the same beliefs regarding climate change. So it stands to reason that all research confirming it will be peer reviewed. Of course, this is in regards to academic literature.

    The IPCC reports are just syntheses of published literature, so I’ve never understood how they can claim it’s peer reviewed. Not only that, but the IPCC blatantly disregarded all rules of legitimate peer review by waving off true criticisms of the reports.

    When your primary reviewers are the very people who wrote the papers on which you’re basing your synthesis, there’s undoubtedly a problem.

  • scubadiver49er

    I’m wondering if this can be confirmed????

    “The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen , Norway” .

    “Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes”.

    “Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulfstream still very warm”.

    “Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared”.

    “Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old Seal fishing grounds”.

    “Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable”.

    “I’m sorry, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922
    as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post”.