Can Peer Review be fixed? « JoNova

The peer review system, so important to the bolstering the voice of the climate establishment and suppressing dissent, is broken. Not that it was perfect and somehow got wrecked, but that it was never stringent or transparent in the first place. As the force of money, power, and reputations was ramped up, it was an eminently corruptible system, and thus it has become. Seriously, what other profession would call unpublished comments by two unpaid anonymous colleagues “rigorous”?

Dear IRS officer, my tax return was audited by two accounting friends I won’t name, and they say it’s right. OK?

Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Trust and Climate Diplomacy

I was writing up some notes last week from a trip to India earlier this year when I came upon this from an interview with a senior official:

“No negotiator believes that the U.S. goal is to address climate change. They think they need to protect themselves.”

Russian Scientist: Extreme Central Russian Heat Wave Not An Indication Of A Future Climate Catastrophe

A Russian scientist says the regional heat wave taking place in Russia is not a sign of catastrophic climate change and that the permafrost has been thawing since the last ice age 10,000 years ago, and its rate of thawing is also not catastrophic.

'Fake fishermen' conning BP out of Gulf of Mexico compensation money - Telegraph

Fraudsters are posing as fisherman to con BP out of thousands of dollars in compensation for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.