So back to the vaunted " Roy Clark - the publishing climate scientist that denies man made global warming" that pie offered above.
Still can't anything about him except that he deals with sunspots....... and the journal he published his paper in?
The journal is regarded as "a small journal that caters to climate change denialists".
[8] It has played an important role in attacking climate science and scientists, for example
Michael E. Mann.
[9]
Several scientists and socials scientists such
Gavin Schmidt,
Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Stephan Lewandowsky and Michael Ashley, have criticised that
E&E has low standards of peer review and little impact.
[10][11] In addition,
Ralph Keeling criticized a paper in the journal which claimed that CO2 levels were above 400 ppm in 1825, 1857 and 1942, writing in a letter to the editor, "Is it really the intent of E&E to provide a forum for laundering pseudo-science?"
[10][12]
A 2005 article in
Environmental Science & Technology stated that the
journal is "obscure" and that "scientific claims made in Energy & Environment have little credibility among scientists."[9] Boehmer-Christiansen acknowledged that the journal's "impact rating has remained too low for many ambitious young researchers to use it", but blamed this on "the negative attitudes of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)/
Climatic Research Unit people."
[13] According to
Hans von Storch, the journal “tries to give people who do not have a platform a platform,” which "is then attractive for skeptic papers. They know they can come through and that interested people make sure the paper enters the political realm.”
[9]
When asked about the publication in the Spring of 2003 of a revised version of the paper at the center of the
Soon and Baliunas controversy, Boehmer-Christiansen said, "
I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?"
[14]
Just another example of the intellectual honesty of the great pie.
