Dr Richard North
"..No such subtlety troubles Booker though. He goes in full frontal, both barrels blazing, lobbing grenades with gay abandon on the way.
One of those "grenades" he so deftly lobs is the study carried out by Donna Laframboise who, with the help of 40 "citizen auditors" from 12 countries, checked out every one of the 18,531 scientific sources cited in the IPCC AR4. Nearly a third of them – 5,587 – were not peer-reviewed at all, but came from newspaper articles, student theses, even propaganda leaflets and press releases put out by green activists and lobby groups.
More damaging, however, Booker asserts, was the report from a team led by Lord Oxburgh on the scientific integrity of the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). ..."
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What's Left if We Disregard Non-Peer-Reviewed Claims? (Donna Laframboise)
"...Altogether, the four paragraphs on the page amount to 593 words. But only 98 of those words - 17 percent - are backed up by peer-reviewed research. And remember, according to the IPCC chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, all other research deserves to be thrown into the dustbin "
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