Climate Breaking Peer Review

Pointman’s latest. It is a hoot. And devilish clever.

It has just occurred to me (1125z) that I should add a quote from the piece to get readers interested. Here goes:

Wol is a person I admire of the highest personal integrity combined with great moral fibre and a true believer in the essential wholesomeness of all people, which is why he’s totally vulnerable to the machinations and corrupting influence of a low, scheming and morally ambivalent creature like my good self. He never actually stood a chance, so I got my way in the end.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why over the last few years peer-reviewed papers about global warming by highly qualified and supposedly sane researchers, have predicted a bizarre and frankly ludicrous variety of things. To give you just a few examples of this tendency, it’s been variously suggested global warming might; make fish go deaf, cause more women to become prostitutes, make us more violent, cause oceans to lose their smell and even incite aliens to destroy us. All of those predictions are for real, except for the one I just made up. Your mission Mr Phelps, should you decide to accept it, is to spot which one that is.

On a related note you might like my Peer Review Is Fatally Broken.


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  1. jccarlton Avatar
    jccarlton

    I was going to post this in TP, but decided that the troll wouldn’t get the joke. I loved it though. Reminds me of the old Soviet “agents of influence brigade.