Is The Latest Atlantic Current ‘Collapse’ Paper Scientific Fraud?
Echoes of Climategate and climate alarmism permeate new paper on a collapsing AMOC.
by Dr. Matthew Wielicki September 01, 2025, 10:21 AM
As a published scientist with papers in prestigious journals like PNAS, Science Advances, and others, I’m intimately familiar with the peer-review process. [emphasis, links added]
It’s far from perfect—plagued by biases, delays, and occasional gatekeeping—but it remains the gold standard for disseminating expert, evidence-based information in a timely and accurate manner.
That said, when peer review gets weaponized to push a narrative, it crosses into dangerous territory. We’ve seen this before in the climate science community, as I detailed in my piece “Manufacturing Consensus” and as exposed in the infamous Climategate emails from 2009.
In those leaked messages, Dr. Michael Mann (of hockey-stick graph fame) explicitly discussed using the peer-review system to block dissenting papers, stating they would “redefine what the peer-review literature is” to keep out views that challenged the alarmist consensus.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/atlantic-current-paper-scientific-fraud/
