“The report was thoroughly peer–reviewed”. This was the claim made by Matt Ridley in the Times on the 19th of October. It wasn't – isn't – true.
Among a number of revelations from the Greenpeace Energydesk investigation this week is the fact that the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a climate denying think tank which refuses to reveal its funders, runs its own 'peer review' scam, where its advisors read over each others' papers.
Academic William Happer, subject of the “scientists for hire” sting, explained how the GWPF phoney 'peer-review' process works to Greenpeace's undercover reporter. As Greenpeace put it:
