re: #219 Sharmuta

It’s difficult to get away with corrupt data in science because of peer review. Even if this groups data was fudged, the rest of the scientific community would catch it. Science is self-correcting in this regard.

If peer review were expanded to universal / open source review then there would be no more controversies and we could move on.

One function that peer review serves is to allow some sources/methods to remain proprietary to the people who created them so that they can retain that intellectual property / proprietary advantage.

Just as the US government does not allow one to patent anything related to nuclear armaments so too should intellectual property rights be abandoned regarding climate change and climate change research, IMO.