2008-07-21 Keep Your Enemies Close - You Have No Friends

2008-07-21 Creative Minority Report Patrick Archbold \global warming/skepticism/arguments\Christopher Monckton http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2008/07/keep-your-enemies-close-you-have-no.html Keep Your Enemies Close - You Have No Friends &ldquo;In a shockingly rude gesture, the American Physical Society as part of their proposed debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change [...] solicited a paper from Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. .. The problem is that the "open minded scientists" who requested the "debate" do not like the conclusion of Monckton and have now turned on him quicker than you can say Algore.&rdquo;  In a shockingly rude gesture, the American Physical Society as part of their proposed debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research, solicited a paper from Christopher Monckton of Brenchley.

Monckton, for his part, took the assignment seriously. He wrote a paper analyzing the IPCCs approach to determining the climate's sensitivity to CO2. He submitted the paper to APS as requested. It was scientifically reviewed by "an eminent Professor of Physics" and all requested revisions accepted. The paper was then published.

The problem is that the "open minded scientists" who requested the "debate" do not like the conclusion of Monckton and have now turned on him quicker than you can say Algore. By "turned on him", CMR means that they prefaced his paper with a note saying it had not been peer-reviewed; Monckton claims that the requesting editor did in fact put the paper through a peer-review process, and that Monckton made all the requested changes. This doesn't smell right, however; where is the editor's response?   