Climate Skeptic: A Quick Thought on "Peer Review"

One of the weird aspects of climate science is the over-emphasis on peer review as the ne plus ultra guarantor of believable results. This is absurd. At best, peer review is a screen for whether a study is worthy of occupying limited publication space, not for whether it is correct. Peer review, again at best, focuses on whether a study has some minimum level of rigor and coherence and whether it offers up findings that are new or somehow advance the ball on an important topic.

Is Mendocino the new Napa? | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA

...Jones' study, for example, found that the number of hot summer days over 95 degrees in the Ukiah Valley has steadily declined over five decades while temperatures in Napa have risen.

In the 1950s, Ukiah posted an average of 51 days where the high temperature reached 95 degrees or more, according to Jones' study. The average for the last 10 years is just 29 days.

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