Editor of the journal Remote Sensing, Wolfgang Wagner, has reportedly resigned from his post. The move follows an internal review that revealed that a paper published in his journal by climatic scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell had not been properly reviewed before publishing.
In addition to submitting his resignation, Wagner posted a final editorial in the journal in which he accepted full blame for publishing the paper and apologised for the mistake. He also took the opportunity to take some shots at the media for what he says were over-inflated headlines regarding the claims made by the authors in the paper.
The paper, printed in July, caused uproar in the scientific community due to its assertions that computer models that predict the amount of global warming that will occur in the future are flawed and thus temperatures won't increase as much as others have suggested.
According to Wagner, mistakes were made in the review process (by biased reviewers) for this particular paper leading to a paper being published in his journal that ignored other contradictory views.
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