Prof. Judith Curry declares ‘Its time to abandon the concept of consensus’ — ‘Courtesy of CRU emails, we now understand the sausage making that went into creating the consensus’
Curry: 'Manufacturing a consensus in context of IPCC has acted to hyper-politicize the scientific and policy debate, to the detriment of both. Its time to abandon the concept of consensus; consensus matters far less than simply being right and the arguments themselves that ought to be the focus for discussion'