On Saturday, May 17, 2014 6:11:23 PM UTC+1, Ian Bingham wrote:
Prof.Bengtsson of Reading University put under "enormous pressure" for

daring to say that Global Warming may have been exaggerated. I don't carry

a brief for either camp and keep an open mind, but that really is

deplorable. Do we have a scientific community motivated by the spirit of

scientific enquiry, or do we have The Spanish Inquisition? His paper was

rejected because the editor said it contained errors, but that sounds mighty

like a rationalization to me; he just expressed an opinion that was out of

favour. The scientific community has sunk pretty low when that sort of

thing can happen.



Ian Bingham,

Inchmarlo, Aberdeenshire.

It's only Bengtsson's pleading that he's been put under pressure. How do you know that the article wasn't just poor science? It would certainly be deplorable, if it were true, but the journal turned his article down for simply not being good enough.

I suspect a bruised ego.