Sunday, June 27, 2010

Expert credibility in climate change?


http://www.sciencebits.com/node/214

 In fact, I have no idea how the "average" "climate expert" could have published 408 climate publications. Over say 30-40 years of activity it means a paper once every month or so. Of course, it could be that the average expert simply contributes just a little to each paper, whereas a denialist expert usually publishes with less co-authors. Here's another possibility the authors didn't consider.

Since there are more protagonist papers around, they cite each other more and viola, you get that the more numerous group has more papers per person and more citations per paper. You don't need to be Einstein to figure this out.

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