Nature – They Call Themselves Scientists
From the scientific journal, Nature, this made me chortle:
“Results confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review.”
was the strapline of an article following on from BEST’s premature release of data supporting global temperature increase. Really? The results confirming global warming are welcome? You people aren’t biased in any way then. The article goes on with more jubilation,
“Global warming is really happening — really. There was no conspiracy or cover-up. Peer review did not fail and the scientists who have spent decades working out the best way to handle and process data turned out to know how to handle and process data after all. Thank you Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) study.”
In fact, the figures are somewhat suspect, as Dr Fred Singer (professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project) points out in the article comments section. The data covers less than 30% of total land area and the weather stations are predominately clustered in North America and western Europe. Significantly, the data shows no atmospheric warming when we have been told for years that the atmosphere is affected by temperature changes before the land. The data has not been peer-reviewed, therefore there are likely to be corrections and adjustments made before it can be taken as concrete evidence. Even more significantly, in the research papers produced by the peeps at Berkeley and submitted for peer review, the conclusion they reach is, “The human component of global warming may be somewhat overestimated.”
Somewhat, indeed. Doesn’t that make some journalists look very, very silly? Not to mention Mr Gore and his ilk.
So nuh, nuh, nuh, Nature, you can stick it where the sun don’t shine!
