hi guys,

i'm translating a German article by Jörg Zimmermann of Globales Klima (good but low-profile climate blog) for posting on SkS, and Jörg asked that somebody look over it that he got the facts straight, as he wrote it in a hurry. also suggestions for better english are welcome, as i'm not a native speaker:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/clouds-over-peer-review.html

i'll add links during the day.

p.

ok, from my side the post is good to go now, but i'd still like somebody to look over it.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/clouds-over-peer-review.html

i have one question (search for "amended" in above article for context): the article mentions that Lindzen&Choi managed to publish an article in "Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences" that was originally slated to appear in Journal of Geophysical Research, but i'm not sure this is the paper Zimmermann is talking about (he's a bit hard to reach). does somebody know the details?

p.

CP - perhaps a tad too emotive (scandal, denialist) for instance, and way too long for an SkS post. 

I think if someone unfamiliar with climate science were to read that, they would be none the wiser. Are you able to break it down into something more accessible to a lay audience?

I think this is too "inside baseball" (focused on topics that will be known and appreciated only by those interested and knowledgable to very few).

the article is from another website, so the tone is different from SkS; i did tone it down a bit already, but i see your point, and although i like the rants on other climate blogs from time to time, i really like that SkS has this very calm, unemotional tenor, and think this is doing the community a great service. i pondered on how to translate "leugner" when i used it, and ended up with "denialists" as i cannot use the term skeptics, as it is a misnomer. i used "opponents to..." at the beginning, and tried to use denialists mostly for the non-scientist crowd that is doing just that, if possible not for people like lindzen & spencer that are a bit borderline (i had missed two instances in the first two paragraphs, rewrote them just now).

in this case, as i only translated it, i'd like it best if it was published more or less as is, with the facts roughly checked. otherwise this would probably take a considerable amount of time, with zimmermann being quite hard to reach and very busy at the moment.

my main point in suggesting the article as a guest post to SkS was that i think it deserves a wider audience. so if you think publishing it here would not be the best match, where else would you suggest i should ask? i was pondering Eli's blog, as he's taking guest authors recently, but haven't asked him yet, as john agreed on posting it.

or maybe there could be a way to publish it as is, and distill a simplified version from it later?

thanks a lot for your feedback!

p.

update: yes, the Lindzen&Choi JGR reference is wrong, it was published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. corrected.