Energy and Environment

"Energy and Environment" is "an interdisciplinary journal aimed at natural scientists, technologists and the international social science and policy communities covering the direct and indirect environmental impacts of energy acquisition, transport, production and use." The journal's publisher is Multi-Science and its editor is Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, who is a former Reader in Geography at the University of Hull in England and writer on the political and policy aspects of climate change. The journal's editorial advisory board has 20 members, including 11 professors and 5 other PhDs in 2008.

"Energy and Environment" ("E&E") has been published since 1996. People who have published in this journal include Sallie Baliunas, Ian Castles, Bjorn Lomborg, Patrick Michaels, Ross McKitrick, Stephen McIntyre, Roger Pielke Jr., Willie Soon, Richard Tol, and Gary Yohe. The journal is not listed in the ISI's Journal Citation Reports indexing service for academic journals.cite web |url=http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/policy/pt_skeptics.html |title=ES&T Online News: Skeptics get a journal |accessdate=2007-10-01 |format= |work=] . According to the WorldCat.org database, the journal can be found at 26 libraries worldwide, mostly at universities. [cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21187549&tab=holdings?loc= | title=WorldCat |accessdate=2007-10-08 |format= |work=]

The journal's peer-review process has at times been criticised for publishing substandard papers [cite web |url=http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Climate/Climate_Science/Contrarians.html |title=Climate Science Contrarians |accessdate=2007-10-01 |format= |work=] .Roger A. Pielke (Jr), who published a paper on hurricane mitigation in the journal, said in a post answering a question on Nature's blog in May about peer-reviewed references and why he published in "E&E": "...had we known then how that outlet would evolve beyond 1999 we certainly wouldn't have published there. The journal is not carried in the ISI and thus its papers rarely cited. (Then we thought it soon would be.) We were invited to submit a piece in 1997 or 1998 and we had this in prep and sent it in." [cite web |url=http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2007/05/should_hurricanes_be_part_of_t.html#comment-86797 |title=Climate Feedback: Should Hurricanes be Part of the Mitigation Debate? |accessdate=2007-10-01 |format= |work=]

Numerous people considered climate skeptics or contrarians have published in the journal. Skeptics on the journal's editorial staff include Boehmer-Christiansen herself and anthropologist Benny Peiser. Some of the journal's articles opposing the scientific consensus on climate change have been quoted by policy makers known to be skeptical of the subject, such as U.S. Senator James Inhofe and U.S. Congressman Joe Barton. When asked about the publication of these papers Boehmer-Christiansen replied, "I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?" [http://www.arp.harvard.edu/sci/climate/journalclub/ChronicleEd.pdf]

The publication's ISSN is 0958-305X and OCLC is 21187549

External links

* [http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ee.htm Webpage for "Energy & Environment"]
* " [http://www.arp.harvard.edu/sci/climate/journalclub/ChronicleEd.pdf Storm Brews Over Global Warming] " Sep 4 2003 article by Richard Monastersky in the Chronicle of Higher Education

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