Wolfgang Warner "Resigns" on Publishing Climate Skeptics Paper

Wolfgang Warner "resigned." It's more like fired, at the least, a forced resignation as editor of the scientific journal, Remote Sensing.

Why did he "resign?" Remote Sensing published a paper coauthored by Roy Spencer and W.D. Braswell. Their paper disclosed data analysis disbanding the predictions of anthropogenic global warming climate models. The paper endured the usual pre-publication reviews. It was published, publicizing the skeptics scientific perspectives, leaving climate alarmists red-faced and Wolfgang Warner fired......make that resigned with no choice.

Spencer and Braswell blew a hole in climate models, showing that forecasts of temperature rise were out of line. Warner accepted blame for publishing the paper that said such a contrarian thing, pointing rather willy-nillingly to some breakdown in the peer review process. He graciously resigned, accepting under pressure his unfair fate.

No other editor before now has lost his job printing research findings contrary to the politically correct view on global warming. We know that advocates make money on "green" technologies for mitigation. We know that politicians pressure everything from intellectual inquiries to marketing to show "green" answering a warming earth. We know that once reputable research institutions are paid in grants to record, model, and predict temperatures rising. But lose your job for printing dissenting science?

This is reminiscent of the Soviet Union taking people away in the night. Okay, Wolfgang Warner wasn't taken away in the night, he only lost his livelihood and profession in broad daylight. Perhaps the night scene happens next.

This is scary stuff, folks. Obscene is more like it. Watch out with your dissenting opinions, be they politically incorrect, or worse, based on facts and data. Because facts and data are irrefutable if you disclose their source and methods of collection. They catch people who have a different ideology in lies. And because they can't get rid of repeatable and reproducible data, they'll get rid of you!

In the science community, we knew this was coming. The study of natural phenomenon has been compromised. Science is no longer free of the political taint that has putrefied most everything else in these United States.

Lights off. Doors locked. Look straight. Shut up. Whatever happened to the First Amendment?

Sources:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/09/journal-editor-resigns-over-contrarian.html

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/comment-on-the-resignation-of-wolfgang-wagner-as-editor-in-chief-of-the-journal-remote-sensing-in-response-to-the-publication-of-spencer-and-braswell-2011/