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Climate scientists subverted peer review
Examiner ^ | December 2, 2009 | Patrick Michaels

Posted on 12/01/2009 6:24:21 PM PST by ricks_place

The more we learn about the purloined e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit the more it resembles Watergate. As was the case in 1974, there will be no one particular spectacular revelation, but rather an unremitting and unrelenting daily drip-drip that ultimately brings down the house.

The latest gem comes from none other than Rajendra Pauchari, the climatologically untrained head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Without the IPCC there would be no cap-and-tax legislation awaiting debate in the Senate. There would be no meeting in Copenhagen, where, next month, world leaders will attempt to globalize cap-and-tax. There would also be no pledge from President Obama to emissions reductions that have never been passed by the Senate.

The e-mails have given Pauchari the onerous task of defending the IPCC from its own "scientific" leadership, now accused (or, perhaps, incriminating itself) of seriously manipulating the scientific literature that goes into the august IPCC scientific reports.

In one of the e-mails, Penn State's Michael Mann, long a power player in the production of these reports, said this about some scientific articles he did not like: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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In this case, Mann is actually speculating about keeping contrary information out of the IPCC reports by blacklisting certain professional journals.
1 posted on 12/01/2009 6:24:22 PM PST by ricks_place
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Beam Me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 12/01/2009 6:27:38 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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3 posted on 12/01/2009 6:29:13 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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These climate “scientists” attempted to do an end run around the scientific method, an in particular, the requirements of documentation and sharing of all data and methodology, making it all available for scrutiny by other scientists, and allowing other researchers the verify results by reproducing them. Verifiable results are at the core of the scientific method. They betrayed science in the name of their climate-change religion.


4 posted on 12/01/2009 6:34:43 PM PST by La Lydia
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They’re liars or worse...


5 posted on 12/01/2009 6:38:29 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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Rajendra shared the Peace Prize with Gore. So they each got about a half a mil...It almost sounds like.....a conspiracy!!! Imagine that!!


6 posted on 12/01/2009 6:41:19 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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One thing most scientist know and fear: if today someone else’s paper or grant proposal gets abused in the peer review process for publications or grants,tommorow it is likely to be yours. Integrity in peer review is absolutey essential as is declaration of conflict of interest and responsible action. These jack..... climate research guys failed on all counts.

This sends shivers down most research scientists’ spines.


7 posted on 12/01/2009 6:42:19 PM PST by rod1
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Not the first time that this level of fraud has happened in scientific history.

Lysenkoism was a Communist/socialist bizarre perversion of biological genetics which was the only biology "science" allowed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1964. Al Gore would have been proud, since opponents to the official Marxist-friendly mass delusion were sent off to die in gulag concentration camps.

Charlatans Gore and Lysenko:

Even honest scientists in the West who questioned Lysenkoism were denounced by the socialists:


8 posted on 12/01/2009 6:42:29 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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I don’t know if you have seen this video regarding AGW . It is excellent

http://www.climate-skeptic.com/phoenix


9 posted on 12/01/2009 6:50:26 PM PST by ventanax5
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yes, they are liars, and as scientists, they are without honor.


10 posted on 12/01/2009 7:28:21 PM PST by La Lydia
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I don’t think the term “peer reviewed” will ever tell me anything useful about something published by a scientist again.
My father-in-law, a chemical engineer, once said that Chemists are scientists, physicists- well some of them. All the rest who use the name are politicians and novelists.


11 posted on 12/01/2009 8:13:33 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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LOL


12 posted on 12/01/2009 8:23:48 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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“Peer review” — A conspiracy of collusion, which I’d suspected all along.


13 posted on 12/01/2009 8:34:17 PM PST by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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“Peer review” — A conspiracy of collusion, which I’d suspected all along.

The irony of it all is that the criminal conspiracy by these so-called scientists was discovered as the result of their utter, breathtaking arrogance:

Their utter incompetence at statistics; they were so self-centered, that they thought it unnecessary to bring experts aboard who actually knew what they were doing.

And that will ultimately nail the coffins of their reputations and careers.

The emails reveal a truly embarrassing series of amateurish disdain for what they did not know. Statistical analysis found their scam; and statistical analysis will end their careers. It's just a matter of when.

14 posted on 12/01/2009 9:34:43 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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The link at the top has expired, but the Patrick Michaels article is archived at the CATO Institute.
15 posted on 05/15/2014 9:02:16 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
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