I am a scientist.
I know that if I “used a trick” to “hide the decline” I would be out on my ear.
For whatever reason climate “science” seems to work under a different set of rules.
I know that if I was caught trying to ‘change the peer review process if we have to’ to keep out dissent I would be out on my ear.
For whatever reason climate “science” seems to work under a different set of rules.
Apparently a regular science peer review process would destroy their carefully built up “consensus” by illustrating that there were gaping holes that they couldn’t account for.
Usually in science if a theory cannot account for all the evidence or respond intelligently to peer reviewed scientific challenges - the theory is either changed, modified, or abandoned.
Apparently climate “science” works under a different set of rules.
I remember how the famous evolution scientist Samuel Holmes dressed monkeys up in suits and photographed them sitting in parlor rooms.
Apparently climate science works under a different set of rules.
It borrows some rules from evolution science.