{"id":4064,"date":"2010-09-28T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2010-09-28T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T21:00:30","slug":"climategate-blacklist-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"Climategate Blacklist In Action?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Climategate%20Blacklist%20In%20Action%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>A few months ago, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2010\/06\/04\/1003187107.full.pdf+html\">peer reviewed paper<\/a> that many skeptics felt was a precursor to blacklisting climate scientists who didn&#8217;t tow the warmist doom-and-gloom party line. Criticisms are aired <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/06\/22\/the-blacklist-of-climate-science\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/08\/05\/expert-embarrassment-in-climate-change\/\">here<\/a>, and most notably <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/06\/22\/a-new-blacklist\/\">here<\/a>, which explains why Climate expert Dr. Rodger Pielke Sr should not even be on the &#8220;skeptic&#8221; side of the list. He believes in man-made global warming, but splits with the crowd on exact causes (thinks that land use contributes more that is recognized) and\u00a0 what the repercussions might be (thinks the consensus is somewhat exaggerated toward the negative, ignoring the possible positive results). Well, we may very well have seen the fruits of that paper come to fruition. From Dr Pieilke&#8217;s web site yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was invited by Nature magazine to write a Letter in response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2010\/100905\/full\/news.2010.448.html\">September\u00a0Exeter<\/a> meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfacetemperatures.org\/home\">http:\/\/www.surfacetemperatures.org\/home<\/a>, and have been working with\u00a0a member of their staff on edits over the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I received the startling\u00a0e-mail below from Nature\u2019s  Chief Commissioning Editor. Quite frankly, the only way I can interpret  this behavior\u00a0is as an example of the continued bias in Nature\u2019s  reporting of climate issues. Their statement that <em>\u201cWe have now reflected on the matter, and on some information from attendees at the meeting in question\u201d <\/em>is a remarkable admission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the actual letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Professor Pielke,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much for taking the time to write to Nature, upon request. And for the revisions you\u2019ve made, again at our request.<\/p>\n<p>We have now reflected on the matter, and on some information from attendees at the meeting in question. We have, I\u2019m afraid concluded that we cannot offer publication on this occasion. We feel that there are too many nuances to this situation to be properly communicated by a short item (or items) on our letters page.<\/p>\n<p>We will however continue to track the evolving story for news or leaders, as appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>We apologise for having taken up your time in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Sara Abdulla<br \/>\nChief Commissioning Editor<br \/>\nOpinion [incl Correspondence and Books &amp; Arts]<br \/>\nNature<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We have now reflected on the matter, and <b>on some information from attendees at the meeting in question<\/b>. We have, I\u2019m afraid concluded that we cannot offer publication on this occasion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm. I wonder, which side of the list do you think these <i>attendees<\/i> might have been on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Climategate%20Blacklist%20In%20Action%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>A few months ago, there was a peer reviewed paper that many skeptics felt was a precursor to blacklisting climate scientists who didn&#8217;t tow the warmist doom-and-gloom party line. Criticisms are aired here, here, and most notably here, which explains why Climate expert Dr. Rodger Pielke Sr should not even be on the &#8220;skeptic&#8221; side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}