Richard Lindzen

Okay.

This is 20 years ago or something almost.

Somebody anonymous released the emails from a place in England, the University of East Anglia,

which has a lot of people pushing climate alarm and they were communicating with other people like Michael Mann and so on.

And they were talking about blocking publication and getting rid of editors and doing this and doing that and so on.

And that was all public.

And it had no impact at all.

That sounds like that should be illegal.

Yeah.

Well, you know, the whole business with

How should I put it?

Peer review.

It is not ancient.

Before World War II, very few journals had peer review.

And in fact, when I have students look at old journals from the 19th century, one of the big surprises is they are less formal than today's papers.

They are literally discussions among scientists about their results, their questions, their uncertainties, and so on.

There's real communication.

Today, I mean, there's much more formality in the papers.

There's also, in my field, the Meteorological Society actually did a poll or a study, how often are papers referred to?

And it turns out the average paper is referred to once