1. you are full of shit.. it should embarrass whoever is paying you..
no wonder that berkeley earth page does not mention they are peer reviewed.
they submitted (some ) of their work to to a
pay for publication predatory open access journal. And it seems to be the data oriented part of the work. Not the guess work modeling.
But... nevertheless it was one of those fake predatory journals.
here is what your beloved wiki quote says...
a. "The team's preliminary findings, data sets and programs were published in journals operated by
OMICS Group, a
predatory open access publisher beginning in December 2012. The study addressed scientific concerns including urban heat island effect, poor station quality, and the risk of data
selection bias."
here is what wikipedia says... when you click on OMICS - you troll clown...
b. OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of
open access journals that is widely regarded as
predatory.
[2][3][4][5][6][7] It issued its first publication in 2008.
[8] According to a 2012 article in
The Chronicle of Higher Education about 60 percent of the group's 200 journals had never actually published anything.
[9]
Academics and the United States government have questioned the validity of
peer review by OMICS journals, the appropriateness of author fees and marketing, and the apparent advertising of the names of scientists as journal editors or conference speakers without their knowledge or permission.
[3][4][5][6][7] As a result, the U.S.
National Institutes of Health does not accept OMICS publications for listing in
PubMed Central and sent a
cease-and-desist letter to OMICS in 2013, demanding that OMICS discontinue false claims of affiliation with U.S. government entities or employees.
[6] OMICS has responded to criticisms by avowing a commitment to open access publishing, claiming that detractors are traditional subscription-based publishers who feel threatened by their open access publishing model,
[10] and threatening a prominent critic with a US$1 billion lawsuit.
[9]
...
OMICS operates on an
open access model, wherein the author pays for publication and the publisher makes the articles available for free. According to
The Chronicle of Higher Education, some open access journals are legitimate, while others are
vanity publications "that accept virtually any article to collect fees from the authors." There is not always a clear distinction between the two.
[3] The publication fee for OMICS journals vary from the low hundreds up to $2,700. OMICS also charges a withdrawal fee (stated as 30% of the article processing charge) should a paper be withdrawn more than a week after submission.
2. Why the hell would you normalize the data if the question is... did revenues go up after the tax cuts that is the question.
I made the statement your chart proved and you are still trying to deny and lie.
Isn't the point of tax cuts to grow the economy? We expect taxes to be a smaller part of a bigger ecnomomy....That is the goal increase revenues by increasing the economy.
