Jennifer Marohasy » How To Censor a Climate Sceptic

Dr Roy Spencer is a well known climate sceptic who has published extensively in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals and earlier this year had a popular book published entitled ‘Climate Confusion’.

Yesterday, November 3, 2008, two technical papers that Dr Spencer had recently submitted to the journal Geophysical Research Letters were outright rejected in back-to-back emails and on the same day all 78 reviews of his book on Amazon.com were removed from that website.

Regarding the missing reviews, I'm highly skeptical that Amazon deliberately removed them for censorship purposes. For one thing, I see lots of reviews still out there for various other climate realist books. For another thing, it looks like something similar has happened (and has been corrected) in the past:

July '07: The case of the disappearing Amazon reviews

UPDATE Mid-afternoon Wednesday: The reviews appear to be back. Thanks, Amazon.