Due Diligence
The march 8, 2009
International Conference on climate change is shaping up to be a fairly important event. I wonder if Due Diligence in climate science gets covered ?
Stephen McIntyre, primary author of the influential Climate Audit blog, has some strong views on the mater -
(extract)
...IPCC proponents place great emphasis on the merit of articles that have been "peer reviewed"�? by a journal. However, as a form of due diligence, journal peer review in the multiproxy climate field is remarkably cursory, as compared with the due diligence of business processes. Peer review for climate publications, even by eminent journals like Nature or Science, is typically a quick unpaid read by two (or sometimes three) knowledgeable persons, usually close colleagues of the author. It is unheard of for a peer reviewer to actually check the data and calculations.
http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66
Probably shake the AGW belief of a few more people...
