The story so far: “Energy and Environment” threatens to sue RealClimate, and RC tells them they are a bunch of bozos.
But now the Grauniad picks up the story. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen attempts to fight back by asserting that Every paper that is submitted to the journal is vetted by a number of experts but noticeably does *not* use the magic phrase “peer review”. So it looks like E+E are going to concede by default, which leaves their reputation in tatters: as Gavin says:
You would need a new editor, new board of advisors, and a scrupulous adherence to real peer review, perhaps … using an open review process… But this is very unlikely to happen since their entire raison d’être is political, not scientific.
But if you’d rather have a quote from SB-C, how about
being published in E&E is for debate, not evidence of ‘truth’
Refs
* Peer Review At E&E: A Case Study – the Iron Sun! What more could we need?
* Zero tolerance for pseudo-science?
* JEB
* RP Jr
