[lbo-talk] climate change

[Michael McIntyre]

OK Jim, let's get this straight.  You claimed that Jones was trying to
keep skeptic stuff out of peer-reviewed journals.  As evidence you
adduced a quote in which Jones suggested that he and his friends might
stop publishing in a journal that had begun publishing climate-skeptic
stuff.  How about a little honesty here?

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:49 AM, James Heartfield
<Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Do you bother to read the stuff you respond to Michael?
>
> Climate Research is a respectable journal. It's control has not been
> 'finagled' by 'climate change skeptics' or little green men, for that
> matter. Philip Jones' underhand attempt to have it no longer considered as a
> peer-reviewed journal is wholly underhand. So much so that he admits himself
> in a quandary as to what he will tell those on the editorial board whom he
> considers 'reasonable' (so reasonable in fact that they choose to sit on the
> editorial board).
>
> 'Peer-review' in Jones' imagination, is a gift of ... Philip Jones.
>
> Phil Jones, wrote to Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann to
> questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human
> activities and global warming deserve to make it into the IPCC report
>
> "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report," Jones
> writes. "Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to
> redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
>
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