{"id":20781,"date":"2017-10-04T20:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=20781"},"modified":"2017-10-04T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T01:27:43","slug":"the-harde-they-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2017\/10\/the-harde-they-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"…the Harde they fall."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in February<\/a> we highlighted an obviously wrong paper by Harde which purported to scrutinize the carbon cycle. Well, thanks to a crowd sourced effort which we helped instigate, a comprehensive scrutiny of those claims has just been published<\/a><\/span>. Lead by Peter K\u00f6hler, this included scientists from multiple disciplines working together to clearly report on the mistaken assumptions in the Harde paper. <\/p>\n

The comment is excellent, and so should be well regarded, but the fact that it is a comment means that the effort will likely be sorely underappreciated. Part of problem is the long time for the process (almost 8 months) which means that the nonsense is mostly forgotten about by the time the comments are published. We’ve discussed trying to speed up and improve the process by having a specialized journal for comments and replications<\/a> but really the problem here is the low quality of peer review and editorial supervision that allows these pre-rebunked papers to appear in the first place.<\/p>\n

GPC is not the only (nor the worst) culprit for this kind of nonsense – indeed we just noticed a bunch of astrology papers in the International Journal of Heat and Technology<\/a> (by Nicola Scatetta [natch]). It does seem to demonstrate that truly you can indeed publish anything somewhere. <\/p>\n

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  1. <\/a>\nP. K\u00f6hler, J. Hauck, C. V\u00f6lker, D.A. Wolf-Gladrow, M. Butzin, J.B. Halpern, K. Rice, and R.E. Zeebe, \"Comment on \u201c Scrutinizing the carbon cycle and CO 2 residence time in the atmosphere \u201d by H. Harde\", Global and Planetary Change<\/i>, vol. 164, pp. 67-71, 2018. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gloplacha.2017.09.015<\/a>\n\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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