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Defend America on Monday, November 30, 2009 6:25:22 AM
CRU’s Tree-Ring Circus
Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?
By Mark Steyn
My
favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently
roiling the “climate change” racket was Stuart Varney’s interview on
Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr. — star of the 1980s medical drama
St. Elsewhere but latterly better known, as is the fashion
with members of the thespian community, as an “activist.” He’s
currently in a competition with Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”) to see who
can have the lowest “carbon footprint.” Pistols at dawn would seem the
quickest way of resolving that one, but presumably you couldn’t get a
reality series out of it. Anyway, Ed was relaxed about the mountain of
documents recently leaked from Britain’s Climate Research Unit in which
the world’s leading climate-change warm-mongers e-mail each other back
and forth on how to “hide the decline” and other interesting matters.
Nothing
to worry about, folks. “We’ll go down the path and see what happens in
peer-reviewed studies,” said Ed airily. “Those are the key words here,
Stuart. ‘Peer-reviewed studies.’”
Hang on. Could you say that
again more slowly so I can write it down? Not to worry. Ed said it
every 12 seconds, as if it were the magic charm that could make all the
bad publicity go away. He wore an open-necked shirt, and, although I
don’t have a 76” inch HDTV, I wouldn’t have been surprised to find a
talismanic peer-reviewed amulet nestling in his chest hair for
additional protection. “If these scientists have done something wrong,
it will be found out and their peers will determine it,” insisted Ed.
“Don’t get your information from me, folks, or any newscaster. Get it
from people with Ph.D. after their names. ‘Peer-reviewed studies is the
key words. And if it comes out in peer-reviewed studies . . . ”
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