So much for that peer-reviewed climate science

Reason – Climategate Update: About That Peer-Reviewed Stuff

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that claims of rigorous peer-review [in the IPCC report] may have been exaggerated:

a new study put this claim to the test. A team of 40 researchers from 12 countries, led by a Canadian analyst Donna Laframboise, checked out every one of the 18,531 scientific sources cited in the mammoth 2007 report. Astonishingly, they found that nearly a third of them – 5,587 – were not peer-reviewed at all, but came from newspaper articles, student theses, even propaganda leaflets and press releases put out by green activists and lobby groups.