Refereed Journals: Do They Insure Quality or Enforce Orthodoxy? The present system, if continued, may seriously impede, if not stop, the advance of science

My own experience reinforces everything he [Tipler] says. With just one highly technical exception NONE of my papers appeared in "mainstream" (APA) journals. And the reason is glaringly obvious. I have always been unwaveringly critical of Leftist ideas, which are the orthodoxy in academe. So nearly all of my 200+ published papers were published in just three journals with sympathetic editors. Amusingly, however two of those journals are very widely circulated and cited. So my papers still got good exposure and appeared in journals that were highly creditable. As soon as the editors changed, however, my papers ceased to be accepted!

All Time Temperature Records In South Australia | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

It is amply apparent that the top temperatures set this summer are not as high as those set in 1960. It also seems highly likely that even higher ones were set in 1939, as was the case in NSW. It is a pity the Bureau did not point this out.

- Bishop Hill blog - Dave Summers on everything

BH reader Dave Summers, a Professor emeritus of mining engineering, is interviewed by CNBC on just about everything to do with energy and climate. There's caution on shale, pessimism on the economy and a healthy dose of scepticism on climate...

The New Nostradamus of the North: Germany's "official" warmists as comic heroes

The "official" warmists in Germany must be desparate. As the general public in Germany, as well as elsewhere, shows less and less interest in global warming, a taxpayer funded government advisory body of warmists calling itself "Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU)" has decided to waste money and energy on a series of comic books in the (vain) hope of attracting young people for their lost cause.

The bright idea behind the "scientific project" is that members of the WBGU - people like the superwarmists Stefan Rahmstorf and Hans-Joachim Schnellhuber from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - are acting as "comic heroes" fighting the evil forces of global warming (and presumably global warming "deniers").