WHy shouldn’t they ignore their opponents?
the world is Heresy
Yeah, but check out some comments on WUWT and see where the editor’s “day job” was. “Hockey Stick” Mann and “Perpetually Offended” Trenberth both hold sway over the boards or companies where he’s gainfully employed.
Not surprising at all that he caved, apologized to Trenberth and resigned. Apparently, the board of the publication wouldn’t back him in rescinding the Spencer paper after Trenberth et al gave him his marching orders.
What an incestuous, grade-school mentality these AGW proponents share. “Scientist” is one term that cannot be applied to them.
Comments by Lubos Motl:
The consensus scientists and Greenpeace members who believe that the judgement day is approaching were not pleased by the publication of a paper by Spencer and Braswell. In fact, they forced the editor of the journal to resign.
Finally, they found the answer: they decided to publish their own paper, one that rejects the basic assumptions of Spencer and Braswell. And they agreed that the paper should be published much more quickly than any other paper – they should circumvent the usual multi-month delays – because it was totally urgent and critical for the survival of life on Earth to show that Spencer’s and Braswell’s paper was totally unimportant.
http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/09/andrew-dessler-clouds-dont-reflect.html
Well, yeah. But the reply is ad hominem rather than to the facts.