William M Connolley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, James Annan wrote: >> William M Connolley wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, James Annan wrote: >>>> I meant the open publishing - or more specifically, open review. This way, >>>> pretty much anything can get an airing but if it's dross you can see it get >>>> ripped to shreds by the reviewers. >>> Have you seen this happen? >> Well I wouldn't like to take sides as to who is wrong and who is right >> (ie I'm not identifying them as "dross"), but a couple of hockey-stick >> related papers on Climate of the Past certainly attracted lengthy and >> rather heated debate recently. > > Not related to this: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cp_news.pdf ? >
I remember seeing that some time ago, but don't know what it is about. Anyone? > Which paper, btw... I recall somesuch but not the authors. Top two here: http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/ranking.html > And I wish you did > have a nice example of dross... in fact there is a pre-publication editorial > phase I think, so true dross would never get its chance Before I dig myself too big a hole, my comment about "dross" was meant more as a hypothetical "if someone tried to publish dross it would risk getting publicly eviscerated" and not a comment on specific papers which have been rejected (of which there are certainly some, although the system rather obscures it). I doubt that authors of papers such as "no such thing as global temperature" would dare to run the gauntlet. James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
