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Over at WattsUpWithThat (WUWT) they seem to be having a grand time dealing out nits for the folks crying, “It is getting warm all over the globe.”  The party isn’t about fraud per se, although deceit may enter into the debate.  It seems, the skeptics are more concerned about transparency, or rather, the lack of it. They complain that the so-called fact givers seem not to want their contribution peer-reviewed, except by their team members.

Here’s the first paragraph of the post referenced above on WUWT:

Foreword: Willis asked me to carry this post here. What follows is a long and detailed series of email exchanges that outline the difficult task of getting data so that scientific replication/reproduction can be done by people external to the tight knit group of scientists that make up climate science today.

In a 2006 article two climate investigators published a paper titled: Verification and Validation through Replication: A Case Study Using Axelrod and Hammond’s Ethnocentrism Model. The authors, Rand and Wilensky, writing from Northwestern University complain that climate science research suffers from authentic peer-review since the research information is seldom shared with outside reviewers, nor is it subjected to the rigorous examination it deserves for proper vetting. SOURCE: Anthony Watts writing in WATTSUPWITHTHAT.

The linked article continues with a guest post by Willis Eschenbach. Mr Eschenbach is referred to by some as an “amateur” scientist. I won’t argue with that descriptor because I do not know him or his educational background.  He does however; invite scientists to attack at least one of his “papers,” and you can access the invitation and the paper here. That seems to be much more than some of his detractors are willing to endure with their own research.

The guest post by Willis Eschenbach is valuable if one is to understand some of the very questionable aspects of the research and devious nature of folks at some institutions of higher learning and at least one national laboratory here in the United States.  It is very heartening to see someone  watching the weather seers, even if the watchers can’t get cooperation enough to conduct peer-reviews.

Is there really such a thing as climate “science?”

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