Quite right. You're making a completely pointless point. I've never done original climate research. Not has anybody I know. Nor have the IPCC.Tero wrote:And you do? You have credentials in climate scienxe? Did they pass you up for funding?
You've failed to make any technical points here which were not borrowed from Daily Mail. Not a peer reviewed journal.
So unless you claim a world wide conspiracy, you have nothing.
They read the work of others, and give their opinion. EXACTLY as I do.
Even if I had done original climate research, it wouldn't make ANY difference to whether I could predict what the world's climate will be like in fifty years time. I would still have to read the work of others to give an opinion.
As far as peer review goes, the climategate fiasco proved that the system has a gigantic bias.
Peer review might operate well in all other branches of science. But climate is now religion, not science. Peer review is done, only so long as it supports the god of AGW.