Tommy

Many people waive around peer-reviewed scientific papers as the so-called AUTHORITY and the PROOF that this or that exists or doesnt exist. I have looked closely at the peer review process, and all it does is make sure the i's are dotted, the t's crossed, and the grammar is proper and the paper follows a specified format and is well supported in its statements by a large bibliography. The process doesn't pass any judgment on the research conducted nor does it say the writer is correct or incorrect. So what exactly does this process do? And why do politicians waive "peer-reviewed" white-papers around as their authority for making the outrageous statements they do, and upon which our laws are made and our rights taken away...???? Is ANYBODY Paying Attention????

this has bugged me for a long time. I have read scientific paper after scientific paper, all of them peer reviewed. Each paper advances a theory and a minimal amount of original science backed up by an enormous body of other peer reviewed papers which also advance a theory backed up by only a small bit of science.

So where and when, and especially HOW does a theory advance to a fact? And why do our so-called leaders put so much stock in the peer review process?!

I'll give you a hint...December 21, 2012

I was all excited and jumpped on the band wagon. So much so that I was determined to undermine the naysayers. As a scientist myself, I took a look at THEIR data....boy did I get a shock!

First, the side of the naysayers uses a very compelling argument regarding sunspots and solar flare events to track warming events. They correllate by cause and effect perfectly! In other words, first the sunspots and the solar flares, then a period of global warming...hand in glove.

Looking at Al Gore's global warming data regarding the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere, you can see that FIRST it gets warm, THEN the CO2 rises...again, hand in glove. I looked for the reason for this and didnt have to look any farther than my marine biology text book by Shephard et. al, that shows that a period of oceanic warming spawns a huge algal bloom in the oceans. The algae give off huge amounts of CO2 in response to the warming and the sudden increase in populations of algae!!! Who is the dummy here?