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The journal '''''Energy and Environment''''' is a social science an energy policy journal published by Multi-Science. The journal's editor is [[Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen]], a reader in geography at the [[University of Hull]] in [[England]] and [[global warming skeptic|climate skeptic]].

''Energy and Environment'' is not carried in the [[ISI]] listing of peer-reviewed journals, although it is in the equally highly regarded Scopus listing. Its peer review process has been widely criticised for allowing the publication of substandard papers [http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/policy/pt_skeptics.html][http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Climate/Climate_Science/Contrarians.html]. However, the editor robustly defends her peer review process, claiming it is no different to most other academic journals, and that claims about lack of thoroughness in peer review are just a slur by global warming fanatics to deflect attention from the arguments presented. After all, she argues, for example, it was the M&M paper, first published in Energy and Environment, that forced the IPCC to finally abandon the 'hockey-stick' as its totem, its symbol of impending doom. All the global warming fanatics could do was squeal that M&M were not climate scientists, and that the paper was not properly peer reviewed (as if any outsider would be in a position to know that); they could not engage with the arguments put forward by M&M. Numerous climate skeptics and contrarians have published in the journal and these studies have later been quoted by Republican critics of global warming science such as Senator [[James Inhofe]] and Congressman [[Joe Barton]][http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/policy/pt_skeptics.html].