Journal editor resigns over 'fundamentally flawed' paper by Roy Spencer

Professor Wolfgang Wagner has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the journal Remote Sensing. The reason for his resignation was his journal's publishing of the paper On the misdiagnosis of surface temperature feedbacks from variations in Earth's radiant energy balance, by Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell, which we examine at http://sks.to/negspencer. Wagner concluded the paper was "fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal".

Some key excerpts from Wagner's editorial:

Details of Wagner's resignation have been added to the "Roy Spencer finds negative feedback" rebuttal which has the short URL http://sks.to/negspencer

Posted by John Cook on Saturday, 3 September, 2011


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