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Review of “The temperature–CO2 climate connection: an epistemological reappraisal of ice-core messages” by Pascal Richet
First, I must confess I have probably never read a “scientific” paper of such low quality,
and I am appalled that it was published in an international scientific journal. The paper
looks more like a strongly biased political indictment against climate science, using a plethora of historical impossibilities and without any knowledge of the most basic concepts in climatology. According to usual scientific standards, this paper should certainly not have been published and I suspect there was no climate scientist in the former review process.
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“the synchonicity of the episodes of warming and cooling... between Greenland and
Antarctica... » I do not understand this statement, since it is well established that Greenland and Antarctica are NOT synchronous. This is precisely the subject of a vast literature in climate sciences over the last 30 years. Either the author has missed these previous studies on ice core, something difficult to imagine since they are mentioned in many papers. Or the author tries to fit the data to his own simplistic pre-conceptions of the system, that past temperature changes are “global” (they are not) and that the Northern hemisphere and the southern ones have a similar pattern (they have not) forced by a single global insolation (which is known since the 19th century to have no climate impact). In any case, this sentence alone is not acceptable in a serious scientific paper about ice cores, since it contradicts decades of observational data.
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(3) Some references are unreliable or inappropriate. Two references (Allmendinger 2017 and Nikolov and Zeller 2017) are published in Environ. Polllut. Climate Change.
“Environment Pollution and Climate Change” is published OMICS Publishing Group, which is suspected of being a Predatory Publishing. In fact, Nikolov and Zeller (2017) is based on a “finding” of Volokin and Rellez (2014). “Volokin and Rellez” are names spelled backwards “Nikolov and Zeller”. I found a related news article. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/19/scientists-
published-climate-research-under-fake-names-then-they-were-caught/ Petit (2013) is just an interview article in a French website. Without special reasons,
this is not suitable for a reference of peer review journal.
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https://www.history-of-geo-and-space-sciences.net/2021-08-30_hgss-2021-1_referee-reports-merged.pdf
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