Posted on 09/05/2011 12:34:03 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Comments by Lubos Motl:
The consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of the journal to resign.
Finally, they found the answer: they decided to publish their own paper, one that rejects the basic assumptions of Spencer and Braswell. And they agreed that the paper should be published much more quickly than any other paper – they should circumvent the usual multi-month delays – because it was totally urgent and critical for the survival of life on Earth to show that Spencer’s and Braswell’s paper was totally unimportant.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/09/andrew-dessler-clouds-dont-reflect.html
BTTT
Well, yeah. But the reply is ad hominem rather than to the facts.
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So what can be done about scientific publishing? The only service the publishers provide is to arrange for reviews and to print the journals. And for this they charge an exorbitant fee, a racket George Monbiot rightly calls "pure rentier capitalism".There is an alternative: publish your paper yourself on the web and open the comments. This sort of post-publication review would reduce costs enormously, and the results would be open for anyone to read without paying. It would also destroy the hegemony of half a dozen high-status journals. Everyone wants to publish in Nature, because it's seen as a passport to promotion and funding. The Nature Publishing Group has cashed in by starting dozens of other journals with Nature in the title.
The chicanery is not limited to "climate change" but is pervasive in most if not all fields of study. Fudging the data is not the sole purview of algore and his fellow travelers.
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