Early climate contrarian reactions to the retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008 have grasped at straws, holding that this does not affect the findings of the paper and the earlier Wegman report alleging inadequate peer review in climate science.
Not exact matches
A favourite
climate contrarian talking point is that there was a pause or «hiatus» in warming from 1998 until the
early part of the current decade.
Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of
contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of
climate change
earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).
That the award is intended to show group solidarity with his position as the Serengeti target of the
contrarians as much as acknowledgement for the quality of his
early work on
climate reconstructions that have been largely confirmed by subsequent research.