Climate Science...

Climate scientists really need to get their acts together. First there was the “Climategate” scandal (much as I cringe when the word “gate” is automatically appended to every new debacle that comes along), and now the IPCC have had to admit that their report contained unverified opinion that had not been subject to peer review.

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This needs to stop. People are already sceptical or apathetic about climate change, and stupid errors like this only make things worse.

Personally, I think that this is what happens when politics gets involved in things, as we saw with the exaggerated intelligence reports in the Iraq dossier. Scientists need to keep their goals in mind and not be distracted by what might or might not sway public opinion – otherwise it ceases to be proper science. They definitely can’t start accepting “findings” that have not been analysed and peer reviewed through the proper channels.