‘We [fellow skeptical scientists] talked
mostly of work and upcoming papers and went through the standard
ritual of griping about journal editors and the ridiculous
hoops we sometimes have to jump through to get papers published.
But some of the guys had absolute horror stories of what happened
to them when they tried getting papers published that explored
non-‘consensus’ views. Really outrageous and unethical
behavior on the parts of some editors. I was shocked,’
wrote conference participant Dr. William M. Briggs, a climate
statistician who serves on the American Meteorological Society's
Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor
of Monthly Weather Review, on his blog on March 4. (
LINK)
Prominent Hungarian Physicist Dr. Miklós Zágoni,
a former global warming activist who recently reversed his
views about man-made climate fears and is now a skeptic,
presented scientific findings at the conference refuting
rising CO2 fears. Zágoni’s scientific mentor
Hungarian scientist, Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric
physicist, resigned from his post working with NASA because
he was disgusted with the agency’s lack of scientific
freedom. Miskolczi, who also presented
his peer-reviewed findings at the conference, said he
wanted to release his new research that showed "runaway
greenhouse theories contradict energy balance equations,"
but he claims NASA refused to allow him. ‘Unfortunately,
my working relationship with my NASA supervisors eroded
to a level that I am not able to tolerate. My idea of the
freedom of science cannot coexist with the recent NASA practice
of handling new climate change related scientific results,”
Miskolczi said according to a March 6 Daily Tech article.
(LINK)
[Note: Clarification from original posting. Miskolczi worked
with NASA, not Zágoni.]
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Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo, the first Director
of Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman
of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on
Weather Analysis and Forecasting, noted that many of his scientific
colleagues did not attend the conference because they “feared
their attendance might affect their employment.” D’Aleo
described the fear of retribution many skeptics face as a
“sad state of affairs.” But D’Aleo noted
that he believes there is ‘very likely a silent majority
of scientists in climatology, meteorology, and allied sciences
who do not endorse what is said to be the ‘consensus’
position.’ Other scientists have echoed these claims.
Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, asserted
in December 2007 that skeptics have a much harder time publishing
in peer-reviewed literature. ‘Many of my colleagues
with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability
to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,’
Paldor, who was not in attendance at the New York conference,
wrote in December.
