[allmendream]

It really is a shame, as I said, that Nature and others who should know better (or know enough to stay out of areas that are not their own) have decided that the hill peer reviewed reproducible science should fight and die on is this bogus anthropogenic climate change garbage where they have to use a ‘trick’ to ‘hide the decline’ and ‘redefine the peer review process if we have to’.

If anyone in actual science were caught doing ANY of that it would be termination time, and rightly so.

I am unsure of the argument why this is A-OK in climate science-ish when it would be grounds for termination and intellectual exile in science.

[Bob]

I am unsure of the argument why this is A-OK in climate science-ish when it would be grounds for termination and intellectual exile in science.

It's OK because it's being done to 'save the planet' from being destroyed by the Evil Capitalists. I seem to recall a quote about ends justifying means. I think that fully applies here.