Inside Track
Paper Challenging Climate Crisis Retracted
According to an August 25 post on the climate-change information blog Not a Lot of People Know That, a widely read, peer-reviewed paper by four Italian scientists was retracted on August 23 by the European Physical Journal Plus (EPJP) for concluding that there is no clear evidence that we are in the midst of a climate crisis. This is not the narrative allowed by the gatekeepers of climate-change dogma, who went into full attack mode.
For instance, shortly after the paper’s publication last year, Graham Readfearn of The Guardian claimed that the researchers — two physicists, a professor of agrometeorology, and an atmospheric physicist — were simply writing climate-denial propaganda. “The climate science denial echo-chamber has been loud and proud this week with claims a new ‘international study’ has found no evidence of a climate emergency in records of extreme weather…. The authors … did little original work, but instead reviewed selected papers from other scientists. This was an article, not a study,” Readfearn concluded. Other climate cult-friendly media piled on, alleging that the authors “cherry picked” data and even misquoted others in gathering their information.
Roger Pielke, Jr. of Principia Scientific International reported on July 25 that a whistleblower leaked emails between the editors of EPJP and the associate editor responsible for the peer-review process of the published paper, Jozef Ongena, showing that the retraction was unwarranted and politically motivated.
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