Journal editor resigns over 'flawed' paper co-authored by climate sceptic
The editor-in-chief of a climate science journal has resigned in response to an academic controversy triggered by his publication of a paper co-authored by a leading climate sceptic.
Prof Wolfgang Wagner wrote in an editorial published on Friday in Remote Sensing that he felt obliged to resign because it was now apparent to him that a paper entitled On the misdiagnosis of surface temperature feedbacks from variations in Earth's radiant energy balance by Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell, was "fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal". Spencer has frequently appeared in the rightwing media in the US criticising "climate alarmism" and is the author of a book called The Great Global Warming Blunder.
Wagner, who is the head of the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at the Vienna University of Technology, added he "would also like to personally protest against how the authors and like-minded climate sceptics have much exaggerated the paper's conclusions in public statements".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/02/journal-editor-resigns-climate-sceptic-paperEDITED TO ADD: The Guardian incorrectly identifies the journal as a "climate science" journal. reviewing the previous publications it is clearly not a 'climate' journal. That a climate paper was published in this journal is one of the red flags that called attention to this poor excuse for science from Rush Limbaugh's house denier.
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