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:[[IPCC]] proponents place great emphasis on the merit of articles that have been 'peer reviewed' by a journal. However, as a form of [[due diligence]], journal peer review in the multiproxy climate field is remarkably cursory, as compared with the due diligence of business processes. Peer review for climate publications, even by eminent journals like ''Nature'' or ''Science'', is typically a quick unpaid read by two (or sometimes three) knowledgeable persons, usually close colleagues of the author.

:[[IPCC]] proponents place great emphasis on the merit of articles that have been 'peer reviewed' by a journal. However, as a form of [[due diligence]], journal peer review in the multiproxy climate field is remarkably cursory, as compared with the due diligence of business processes. Peer review for climate publications, even by eminent journals like ''Nature'' or ''Science'', is typically a quick unpaid read by two (or sometimes three) knowledgeable persons, usually close colleagues of the author.

:It is unheard of for a peer reviewer to actually check the data and calculations. In 2004, I was asked by a journal (''Climatic Change'') to peer review an article. I asked to see the source code and supporting calculations. The editor said that no one had ever asked for such things in 28 years of his editing the journal. [http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66]

:It is unheard of for a peer reviewer to actually check the data and calculations. In 2004, I was asked by a journal (''Climatic Change'') to peer review an article. I asked to see the source code and supporting calculations. The editor said that no one had ever asked for such things in 28 years of his editing the journal. [http://www.climateaudit.org/index.php?p=66]

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