Brian Angliss: Watts wrong with this picture?

Watts wrong with this picture?

by Brian Angliss, Scholars & Rogues, October 20, 2011


What’s wrong with this picture:


Anthony Watts published a post today titled “The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review” and complained that BEST didn’t peer review the four papers they pre-released today. This is the same Anthony Watts who published a paper with Joe D’Aleo titled “Is The US Surface Temperature Record Reliable?” two full years before he published the associated peer reviewed paper. Oh, and the peer-reviewed paper came to the opposite conclusion of the Heartland paper.


And the BEST papers? Pre-release versions of the papers they’ll be submitting shortly for peer-review at real scientific journals. The Watts/D’Aleo paper? Published by the climate disruption denying Heartland Institute. 


Watts has so much invested in the US surface station temperature record being wrong that he can’t seem to admit that his own research proved it was right, never mind accept that anyone else’s analyses might show the same.

Related posts (automated):

1. New analysis shows US temperature record is reliable, rejects 2009 claims by Anthony Watts
2. What’s wrong with this picture?
3. Why scientific peer review matters
4. Editor-in-chief resigns as a new paper identifies errors in “fundamentally flawed” climate paper
5. Most speakers at the 6th International Conference on Climate Change misidentified as scientists

http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/10/20/watts-wrong-with-this-picture/