Clouded Climate Change Scholarship, Published, Leads To Editor's Resignation

A paper raising doubts about climate change leads to its publishing journal editor's resignation over his role in disseminating bad science.

The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase.

It was seized on by "sceptic" bloggers, but attacked by mainstream scientists.

Wolfgang Wagner, editor of Remote Sensing journal, says he agrees with their criticisms and is stepping down...
 
The paper became a cause celebre in "sceptical" circles through its claim that mainstream climate models inflated temperature projections through misunderstanding the role of clouds in the climate system and the rate at which the Earth radiated heat into space.

This meant, it said, that projections of temperature rise made in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports were too high...

In essence, Dr Wagner, a professor of remote sensing at Vienna University of Technology, is blaming himself... But he also blames the researchers themselves for not referencing all the relevant research in their manuscript.

So much for the climate change deniers' great hope.

Attention, Rick Perry and Ron Johnson.