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Roy Spencer to Publish New Book in Response to Censorship
The two papers we had submitted to Geophysical Research Letters have both been rejected, with instructions to not resubmit either one. The first paper showed how none of 18 IPCC climate models, in over 1,000 years of global warming simulations, ever exhibits the negative feedback we have measured from global satellite data.
The second paper revealed new satellite evidence that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation modulates the Earth’s radiative balance by an amount that, when put into a simple climate model, can explain 75% of global warming over the 20th Century….including the slight cooling between 1940 and 1980.
Since our previous publications have been basically censored by the news media, and I have now experienced scientific censorship (which I suppose was long overdue), I have decided to take my message to the people in a second book.
In anticipation of trouble getting these papers published, I had already started the book awhile back…it is now about 80% finished, heavily illustrated. The working title is: The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists. My book agent is currently scouting for publishers.
9th November 2008: Roy Spencer’s WeatherQuestions.com
November 12th, 2008 at 4:36 am
When the doubts show up, hypothesis fail, just refuse them the right to publish. Predictably all science will become OPEN as a consequence.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Rejecting bad science is the norm, and many papers are rejected.
How about Spencer release the reasons for the rejection. If he puts the paper and the comments on-line everyone will be able to fairly judge whether he was censored, or rightly rejected for poor work.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Roy Spencer doesn’t do ‘bad science.’ The first paper received favourable comments from one of the two reviewers, who said publish after changes, the other was hostile to the criticism of the climate models. The second paper, showed that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) can explain most of the warming during the 20th Century. It had only one reviewer who, according to Dr Spencer, appeared to not understand how radiative forcing causes temperature changes.
I hope that Roy Spencer re-submits the papers elsewhere, which are, after all, results derived from satellite measurements.
November 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I hope Roy can find a publisher because if he cannot he will find self publication, promotion and distribution is a full time job.