shoot the messenger?
Jones said he might submit a correction to Nature. But he nonetheless attacked bloggers and other critics for "hijacking the peer-review process... Why don't they do their own [temperature] reconstructions? If they want to criticise, they should write their own papers," he said.
Jones and Climategate exposed manipulation of the peer review process and highlighted bad data collection, storage, and manipulation.
So Jones insisting bloggers come up with data and get peer reviewed papers published would be very funny, if doing that in an unbiased way was not his job and that trillions of dollars worldwide were not being considered in taxes or control mechanisms.
My guess is many bloggers will concentrate more on Jones' troubling 1990 China paper that has problems with it's data. Jones may correct his errors 19 years late.
Shouldn't the climate data be held in a open public place? The era of secret data storage and data manipulation is over.
