Monday, September 10, 2012

Carbon [dioxide hoax scam swindle] credit fraud: How big firms faked green to mint gold - Mumbai - DNA
“Of the 60 CDM projects that I have evaluated, there appeared not to be one that actually reduced emissions,” admitted Soumitra Ghosh of North Eastern Society for Preservation of Nature and Wildlife.
End of summer sunshine: Wind, snow and rain set to sweep across Britain | Metro.co.uk
Snow, gales and heavy rain will batter Britain this week heralding a definitive end to the summer sunshine.
New Zealand Ski Area - More than 3 feet of snow in one week
So much for our children not knowing what snow is.

Treble Cone ski area in New Zealand has a received “well over one meter of new snow” (more three feet) since last Monday. This on top of a 2.16-meter base.
Peer review does much less than what Warmists seem to believe
In his comments below, Brendan O'Neill rightly notes the way in which peer review has been inflated into something it is not. Along the way, however, he tends to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Many of the papers that have been sent to me for peer review have shown a pig-ignorant unawareness of the prior literature on the subject or an extraordinarily insoucinant attitude to matters of definition and taxnomomy. When I have pointed that out, the papers concerned have usually not been published, which seems to me to be a useful filtering process.

Nonetheless many crappy papers DO get published, perhaps because the reviewers too had a a pig-ignorant unawareness of the prior literature on the subject or an extraordinarily insoucinant attitude to matters of definition and taxnomomy.

And when politics gets into the process, all bets are off. Papers may be rejected or accepted on purely political grounds. The publication of some truly awful papers in my own field can only be explained by the political desirability of their conclusions.

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