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Climategate Scientist
Accuses Skeptics Of "Hijacking" Peer Review
Process
Hypocrisy of climatologist who vowed to "redefine"
academic standards to exclude contrary evidence
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 The
leading scientist involved in the climategate scandal has accused
skeptics of man made global warming of "hijacking"
the peer review process, when it was he who pledged to "redefine"
it to exclude contrary evidence and viewpoints.
In a complete reversal of reality, Phil Jones, the former director
of the East Anglia climate center, tells
Nature that skeptics are attempting to
denigrate the the academic system in order to skew evidence
relating to climate change:
...he fears that the aftermath of the climategate affair
is undermining the integrity of the scientific review process.
“I don’t think we should be taking much notice
of what’s on blogs because they seem to be hijacking
the peer-review process,” says Jones.
Jones' comments are laughable, given that among the thousands
of emails and documents hacked or leaked from the Climate Research
Unit at East Anglia University last November were several references
to their own agenda to shut down scientific debate on global
warming by stifling counter-evidence from other scientists.
In
one of the emails regarding scientific papers not
to his liking, Phil Jones himself suggested to climate scientist
Michael Mann of Penn State University, "I can’t see
either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin
[Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow — even if
we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
The declaration was all the more damning, given that Jones
and Mann have the authority, as climate scientists, to review
papers and determine whether they are eligible to be published
by leading scientific journals.
Dating back to 1996, the emails show that both U.S. and U.K.
based scientists referred to any research offering alternate
viewpoints as "disinformation","misinformation"
or "crap"
that needs to be kept out of the public domain.
How completely hypocritical it is then for Jones to offer the
following comment in the same recent interview with Nature:
It is now essential for climate researchers to stand up for
their science, he says. “[I'd] like to see the climate
science community supporting the climate science more. Lots
of them are trying but they’re being drowned out.”
Drowned out by your own efforts to shut down evidence you do
not agree with, regardless of its scientific merit, perhaps
Mr Jones?
Last week, Jones
admitted that for the past 15 years there has been
no ‘statistically significant’ warming and that
his data was "probably not as good as it should be".
Jones also told the BBC that the world may well have been warmer
during medieval times than it is now, reversing his position
for the first time on issues that the climate lobby and the
IPCC has consistently claimed are indisputable.
However, Jones' continued denial of his own wrong doing betrays
the fact that he has adopted a staunch bunker mentality.
As we reported
yesterday, the investigation into the emails exchanged
by Jones and his colleagues has descended into farce, as it
has been revealed that three of the "impartial" six
man panel hold strong views on anthropogenic global warming.
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