Sep 5, 2005

ES&T Online News: Skeptics get a journal

Posted in Environment at 4:36 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Paul Thacker of the ACS wrote to tell me he has written a summary of the state of play in publishing when it comes to being skeptical about climate change science. Check out his piece on the journal “Energy & Environment”.

He suggests that climate-change skeptics rejected by mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals can always send their studies to Energy & Environment and his premise is supported by Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, the journal�s editor. She says that the greater the agreement between climatologists, the more suspicious she becomes of their claims that human activity is the cause of global warming.

At least one citation from this journal mentioned in an EPA report was slipped in, says Thacker, and let to the subsequent deletion of the whole section on climate change from the report. To me that seems like almost an admission that there is no consensus.

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