{"id":1946,"date":"2009-11-26T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2009-12-10T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:29:22","slug":"qotd-how-agw-became-the-majority-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/26\/qotd-how-agw-became-the-majority-view\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: How AGW became the majority view"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What the CRU\u2019s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have corrupted the peer-review process. In true Gramscian style they marched on the institutions — capturing the magazines (Science<\/em>, Scientific American<\/em>, Nature<\/em>, etc), the seats of learning (Climate Research Institute; Hadley Centre), the NGO\u2019s (Greenpeace, WWF, etc), the political bases (especially the EU), the newspapers (pretty much the whole of the MSM I\u2019m ashamed, as a print journalist, to say) — and made sure that the only point of view deemed academically and intellectually acceptable was their one.<\/p>\n

Neutral observers in this war sometimes ask how it can be that the vast majority of the world\u2019s scientists seem to be in favour of AGW theory. \u201cPeer-review\u201d is why. Only a handful of scientists — 53 to be precise, not the much-touted 2,500 — were actually responsible for the doom-laden global-warming sections of the IPCC\u2019s reports. They were all part of this cosy, self-selecting, peer-review cabal — and many of them, of course, are implicated in the Climategate emails.<\/p>\n

Now peer-review is dead, so should be the IPCC, and Al Gore\u2019s future as a carbon-trading billionaire. Will it happen? I shouldn\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

James Delingpole, “Climategate: what Gore’s useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn’t get about the ‘peer review’ process”, Telegraph.co.uk<\/em><\/a>, 2009-11-26<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What the CRU\u2019s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have corrupted the peer-review process. In true Gramscian style they marched on the institutions — capturing the magazines (Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc), the seats of learning (Climate Research Institute; Hadley Centre), the NGO\u2019s (Greenpeace, WWF, etc), the political bases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,28,41,16],"tags":[245,240,39,213,434,101],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-media","category-quotations","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-newspapers","tag-peerreview","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-vo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}