'I Don’t Think We Should Be Taking Much Notice of What’s on Blogs'

I'm sure his partner in crime, Al Gore, feels the same way. Who knew Gore's "invention" would come back to haunt him like this?

"The IPCC [report] is an assessment, it's not a review," he says, "so the authors have to know something about the subject to assess which are the important papers to bring in to the particular chapter." In doing so, authors naturally would exclude papers that are scientifically weak or irrelevant, argues Jones.

But he fears that the aftermath of the climategate affair is undermining the integrity of the scientific review process. "I don't think we should be taking much notice of what's on blogs because they seem to be hijacking the peer-review process," says Jones.

It is now essential for climate researchers to stand up for their science, he says. "[I'd] like to see the climate science community supporting the climate science more. Lots of them are trying but they're being drowned out."

Aww, they're being drowned out. Well for the past couple of decades we "deniers" have been shouted down and inundated with propaganda every day, our governments are held hostage by environmental extremists, children are terrorized in the classrooms and told the polar bears are dying off and yet poor Phil Jones is being "drowned out."

Heartbreaking, isn't it?

H/T Tim Blair.

Update: See Ed Morrissey's item this morning: Did Nature misreport fraud issue with Jones?

Given that Keenan’s work has been peer reviewed and freely available, it seems at least curious that Nature apparently never attempted to contact Keenan about the allegations he has made in those papers. The description of Keenan as an “amateur” also seems somewhat misleading, given that he has written at least one peer-reviewed paper directly on the subject of misuse of data in climate-change research. Had Nature actually done a little research themselves, they would have known that Jones has not been accused of doing sloppy work, but of deliberately and knowingly using faulty (or at least unsupported) data to support his theories.

Is there any end to the fraud?