I realize this has already been laid to rest, but this was too amusing (to me) to not comment on.
How did the blog Gbaji linked to find out about the death of ACC? Well, via a
press release (PDF) from the "Science & Public Policy Institute", naturally. One that curiously refers to
Physics & Society as being a "major, peer-reviewed paper".
As previously mentioned, the article in
P&S was written by a Lord Monckton, author, journalist and policy wonk (although not a climate scientist by any means). Oh, he also just happens to be the
chief policy advisor for the Science & Public Policy Institute.
Nothing like a bit of self promotion, laced with just a
little bit of exaggeration, eh?
Monckton, it seems, also doesn't understand the concept of peer-review given that he sent a pouty letter (
PDF) to the APS claiming that the editorial comments he received on his paper counted as peer-review despite them being about making the paper clearer to lay-readers rather than a discussion of the science's merits and evidence. Most absurdly of all, Monckton makes a point of ******** that no one paid him to write his article
He's apparently unaware that free-access publications (such as the journal
Physics & Society) usually require the author to
pay page-charges for peer review (if they offer it at all which
P&S doesn't) since the journal can't afford to both pay scientists to review the article
and publish it for anyone to read.
Edit: and rate-ups for all since someone bombed the thread Edited, Jul 20th 2008 9:27pm by Jophiel