So what I see is a claim in a blog, ZeroHedge, that is right wing, that the study was peer reviewed - but it is not published in any peer reviewed journal or peer-reviewed book (publisher). It is published on a WordPress site owned by one of the co-authors (which are easy to have as I have one too). Much of the support listed in the preface and elsewhere are WordPress articles.
I also see "Dr. Joseph D'Aleo" but am aware he did not earn the PhD but it is an honorary title.
So note:
FACT CHECK: Peer-Reviewed Study Proves All Recent Global Warming Fabricated by Climatologists?
The claim of peer review,
widely reported by
numerous outlets, evidently stems from the second page of the report, in which the names of seven scientists (spanning a wide range of fields including aerospace
engineering and
economics, despite a complete lack of discussion of these topics in the report) appear under the banner “The Undersigned Agree with the Conclusions of this Report”.
We reached out to these scientists to ask if this page was meant to imply that those listed individuals were the peer-reviewers news reports were speaking of. Only one person, George Wolff — a former Environmental Protection Agency atmospheric scientist who is now chief scientist for a company called Air Improvement Resource, Inc. — responded to our request. In a brief response, he simultaneously suggested that their inclusion on the document meant to imply they were the peer-reviewers, and that this process involved merely reading the study carefully:
My approach to reviewing the report was the same as I have used for the hundreds of journal articles that I have reviewed. I read the report carefully and critically. I gave it a formal peer-review.
Reading a study and saying that you agree with its conclusions is not how peer review works. A
formal peer-review is a structured process that by nature requires a third party, usually a journal editor, who oversees an iterative process of critiques and revisions.
I realize this article is widely copied across the right wing blogosphere. But it doesn't pass from what I see.