Dr David Evans claims new climate change discovery

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When I see a "scientist" publish papers like that who is a known proponent of big business, I have to hesitate.

The two scientific papers pertaining to this discovery are undergoing peer-review as reported by PerthNow. Whether that means they have been written and submitted for publication, or (more likely) he has a team working with him to write the papers, they will be the first scientific papers to bare his name as author since 1989. I think people get confused about what peer-review is and isn't. Some people are prolific peer-review writers and write several papers all on the same topic. Then later those papers get counted individually - ah 5 or 6 papers in support of the current theory of CO2 leading climate temperature. In reality it's only one original paper, really, it's just been updated and re-submitted 4 or 5 times.

I can't tell you how annoying this is when I do research for different topics. It makes it very difficult to determine what the balanced view or range of views are on any given topic.

So I'm not surprised many scientists feel frustrated at the process and at the way papers are handled.

The claim is prominent on David's website.

Also take note of the 20-year bet between David and Brian Schmidt. "So my goal was to engage in a bet where if I lost money overall, then that would suggest a real problem with the science of climate change. Certainly if I lost every single one of these bets, with temperatures consistently increasing at a rate of less than 0.09C/decade over 10, then 15, and then 20 years, that might not disprove the climate change theory but it should leave some heads scratching." - Brian in 2007. "The Rashomon aspect comes from whether the bet looks like good news or bad news depending on your focus. I'm winning the first two months of the five year period from 2015 to 2019, which is good for me but not all that definitive. Prior to 2015, comparing years that didn't count, I was losing the bets, and prior to 2014 I was losing them badly." Brian in 2015.