Energy and Environment
The journal Energy and Environment is 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 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 [1][2]. 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[3].
People who have published in this journal include Sallie Baliunas, Patrick Michaels, Ross McKitrick, Stephen McIntyre, Ian Castles, Roger Pielke Jr., Willie Soon, Madhav Khandekar and Indur Goklany.
External links
- Skeptics get a journal, by Paul D. Thacker, Environmental Science & Technology
- Storm Brews Over Global Warming Sep 4 2003 article by Richard Monastersky in the Chronicle of Higher Education
