‘We [fellow skeptical scientists] talked mostly
of work and upcoming papers and went through the standard ritual of
griping about journal editors and the ridiculous hoops we sometimes
have to jump through to get papers published. But some of the guys
had absolute horror stories of what happened to them when they tried
getting papers published that explored non-‘consensus’
views. Really outrageous and unethical behavior on the parts of some
editors. I was shocked,’ wrote conference participant Dr. William
M. Briggs, a climate statistician who serves on the American Meteorological
Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate
Editor of Monthly Weather Review, on his blog on March 4. (
LINK)
Prominent Hungarian Physicist Dr. Miklós Zágoni,
a former global warming activist who recently reversed his views
about man-made climate fears and is now a skeptic, presented scientific
findings at the conference refuting rising CO2 fears. Zágoni’s
scientific mentor Hungarian scientist, Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, an
atmospheric physicist, resigned from his post working with NASA
because he was disgusted with the agency’s lack of scientific
freedom. Miskolczi, who also presented
his peer-reviewed findings at the conference, said he wanted
to release his new research that showed "runaway greenhouse
theories contradict energy balance equations," but he claims
NASA refused to allow him. ‘Unfortunately, my working relationship
with my NASA supervisors eroded to a level that I am not able to
tolerate. My idea of the freedom of science cannot coexist with
the recent NASA practice of handling new climate change related
scientific results,” Miskolczi said according to a March 6
Daily Tech article. (LINK)
[Note: Clarification from original posting. Miskolczi worked with
NASA, not Zágoni.]
Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo, the first Director of
Meteorology at The Weather Channel and former chairman of the American
Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting,
noted that many of his scientific colleagues did not attend the conference
because they “feared their attendance might affect their employment.”
D’Aleo described the fear of retribution many skeptics face
as a “sad state of affairs.” But D’Aleo noted that
he believes there is ‘very likely a silent majority of scientists
in climatology, meteorology, and allied sciences who do not endorse
what is said to be the ‘consensus’ position.’ Other
scientists have echoed these claims. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan
Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed
studies, asserted in December 2007 that skeptics have a much harder
time publishing in peer-reviewed literature. ‘Many of my colleagues
with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability
to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media,’
Paldor, who was not in attendance at the New York conference, wrote
in December.
