{"id":403038,"date":"2025-09-18T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403038"},"modified":"2025-09-18T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:10:39","slug":"shut-out-journal-fires-editor-after-publishing-research-refuting-warming-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403038","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shut out\u2019: Journal fires editor after publishing research refuting \u2018warming climate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"403042\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=403042\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AQMcBbvsz0SvdwTDyTCAwH2qmYxSqh01bC1Nbc8Dusv9Hz5913cvZHZSoMb-ehyDEhj8ylRuLsB-tC2Gz4RG6XzvUVgeTJQe-MnRSHtB3ZKj5rWbeO-eI4d_3l_8eYKud22zvTaBDjmgOwc0mwd2p_fVKdaGtA-4.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/shut-out-journal-fires-editor-after-publishing-research-refuting-warming-climate\/\">The College Fix<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/themes\/tcf\/dist\/images\/tcf-logo.svg\" alt=\"The College Fix - Return to homepage\" style=\"aspect-ratio:7.430340557275541;width:417px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/author\/gabriel-zylstra-hillsdale-college\/\">Gabriel Zylstra &#8211; Hillsdale College<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Marty Rowland is no longer a special editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology after he published a paper challenging mainstream climate change narratives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The paper, titled &#8216;Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems,&#8217; faced immediate calls for retraction, its authors told The College Fix.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scholars expressed concerns about a trend of censorship and retaliation against researchers who question prevailing climate science, asserting that dissenting opinions are increasingly marginalized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>American Journal of Economics and Sociology<\/em>&nbsp;recently removed special editor Marty Rowland from his position for publishing a paper refuting climate change argument about carbon dioxide, according to the paper\u2019s authors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe standard response of the mainstream climate science community these days to papers that somewhat challenge the CO2-is-dangerous-narrative is to immediately ask for retraction,\u201d Marcel Crok, a co-author of the paper and director of the climate science group Clintel, told&nbsp;<em>The College Fix<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a strategy because it gives the signal that the paper is really bad and most people don\u2019t have the time and knowledge to assess the situation,\u201d Crok said in an email Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ajes.12579\">paper<\/a>&nbsp;in question, \u201cCarbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems,\u201d was published in the journal in May 2024. Crok co-authored it with Andy May, a retired petrophysicist and developmental geologist who worked for Exxon and other oil and energy companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rowland, a lecturer at the Henry George School of Science and environmental engineer, was the editor at the journal who approved it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to May\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/andymaypetrophysicist.com\/2025\/08\/17\/an-orwellian-firing-at-the-american-journal-of-economics-and-sociology\/\">blog<\/a>, the journal fired Rowland in August, and the reason it gave was \u201chis publication of our paper.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An archived version of the journal editorial board webpage&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20231129060221\/https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/page\/journal\/15367150\/homepage\/editorialboard.html\">shows&nbsp;<\/a>Rowland was the special editions editor at least since 2023. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/page\/journal\/15367150\/homepage\/editorialboard.html\">current page<\/a>&nbsp;no longer lists him as an editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Fix<\/em>&nbsp;reached out to the editorial team at the&nbsp;<em>American Journal of Economics and Sociology<\/em>&nbsp;several times by email over the past two weeks to ask about the reason for Rowland\u2019s departure. None responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since being published, the paper has been cited 25 times according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C23&amp;q=Carbon+dioxide+and+a+warming+climate+are+not+problems&amp;btnG=\">google scholar<\/a>, and scientists David Wojick, Kenneth Richard, and H. Sterling Burnett gave positive reviews, according to May\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn short there was no legitimate reason to fire Dr. Rowland for publishing our fully peer-reviewed, and well received, paper,\u201d May wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May told&nbsp;<em>The Fix<\/em>&nbsp;via email this week that the paper was peer-reviewed prior to publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe two scientists that liked the paper, both are very famous scientists with decades of climate science publications and well over 16,000 citations between them, had many suggestions and I made all their suggested changes to the paper and the changes improved the paper a lot,\u201d May said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPost-publication, the response was mostly favorable, but there was a lot of published criticism,\u201d he told&nbsp;<em>The Fix<\/em>. \u201cBut, these critical responses to our paper are swamped by the favorable critiques. The paper is very popular and in the top 0.1% of all papers followed by Wiley\u2026 It is also the #2 paper published in&nbsp;<em>AJES<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crok told&nbsp;<em>The Fix<\/em>&nbsp;that others responded to its publication with calls for retraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, May said none of the critics \u201cidentified any errors\u201d in their article, which is why it hasn\u2019t been retracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publisher, Wiley, \u201cdisagreed with our conclusions and wanted to censor our paper, thankfully the board did not do that, but they did fire Marty, which was a very bad move\u201d May told<em>&nbsp;The Fix.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May told&nbsp;<em>The Fix<\/em>, \u201cThe pressures are huge. Basically, if a climate researcher does not toe the \u2018consensus\u2019 line he will receive no funding for his work and will be ostracized. He or she is then often forced to resign or fired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crok agreed, saying scientists whose research does not fit the predominant climate change narrative often are unfairly maligned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These include Dutch scientist Hessel Voortman, \u201cwho published a paper in 2023 about sea level rise along the Dutch coast (showing no acceleration), which led to a group of Dutch scientists asking for retraction,\u201d Crok said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clintel, Crok\u2019s foundation based in the Netherlands, focuses on climate education and policies from the standpoint that climate science should be less political.&nbsp;In 2023, Clintel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/more-than-1600-scientists-and-other-scholars-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration\/\">organized&nbsp;<\/a>a petition of more than 1,600 scientists world-wide, including Nobel Laureates, that argues there is no climate change crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, environmental policy expert H. Sterling Burnett expressed similar concerns about Rowland\u2019s firing when contacted by&nbsp;<em>The College Fix<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019m not surprised at all by the American Journal of Economics and Sociology&nbsp;(AJES) firing of Dr. Rowland,\u201d Burnett said. He is the director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf anything, I\u2019m surprised at how brave he was in publishing the study,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnett said the field of climate research is heavily censored and not open to dispute. \u201cNo one should suffer for their belief in open inquiry that is at the heart of the scientific endeavor, but in the field of climate science, far too many academics do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Burnett, academics are commonly ostracized or fired \u201cfor daring to raise perfectly legitimate questions about the causes and consequences of climate change, and about the policies proposed by the \u2018settled science\u2019 community as a response to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnett said climate research was relatively open to dissenting views up until about 20 years ago when \u201cinfluential climate alarmists moved to shut down continued debate and discussion about the causes and consequences of climate change, by having open minded journal editors removed from their positions or reined in by journal publishers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[C]limate skeptics were increasingly shut out of the peer review process, and papers openly skeptical of the anthropogenic climate disaster narrative found it nearly impossible to get published in top journals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnett told&nbsp;<em>The Fix<\/em>&nbsp;that politicians and media also contributed to disenfranchising so-called \u201cclimate deniers\u201d under the guise of protecting scientific consensus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked about claims of consensus to justify scientific censorship, he responded, \u201cConsensus is a political term, not a scientific one and should have no 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Environmental Engineer Dr Marty Rowland was removed from his position for publishing a paper by Marcel Crok and Andy May. 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The reason he was given for being fired was his publication of our paper,\u00a0Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems. The paper has been cited 23\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0(AJES)\"","block_context":{"text":"American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0(AJES)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=american-journal-of-economics-and-sociology-ajes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNJcQK1-p1qP8O8PyZbG51Pxd_SxJ-dGH_sy1dMM5cT11swdOoupTvKkvFkDlO_xOMcqEfTbLUpR8eE7tzU1twBYnhy4hshw_ROpL-tptdDzrvWAH_xQzMZS0L7q5H1vR5eygYDzic21WiTb2MLolHL0Lg7Mg-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNJcQK1-p1qP8O8PyZbG51Pxd_SxJ-dGH_sy1dMM5cT11swdOoupTvKkvFkDlO_xOMcqEfTbLUpR8eE7tzU1twBYnhy4hshw_ROpL-tptdDzrvWAH_xQzMZS0L7q5H1vR5eygYDzic21WiTb2MLolHL0Lg7Mg-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNJcQK1-p1qP8O8PyZbG51Pxd_SxJ-dGH_sy1dMM5cT11swdOoupTvKkvFkDlO_xOMcqEfTbLUpR8eE7tzU1twBYnhy4hshw_ROpL-tptdDzrvWAH_xQzMZS0L7q5H1vR5eygYDzic21WiTb2MLolHL0Lg7Mg-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNJcQK1-p1qP8O8PyZbG51Pxd_SxJ-dGH_sy1dMM5cT11swdOoupTvKkvFkDlO_xOMcqEfTbLUpR8eE7tzU1twBYnhy4hshw_ROpL-tptdDzrvWAH_xQzMZS0L7q5H1vR5eygYDzic21WiTb2MLolHL0Lg7Mg-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0AQNJcQK1-p1qP8O8PyZbG51Pxd_SxJ-dGH_sy1dMM5cT11swdOoupTvKkvFkDlO_xOMcqEfTbLUpR8eE7tzU1twBYnhy4hshw_ROpL-tptdDzrvWAH_xQzMZS0L7q5H1vR5eygYDzic21WiTb2MLolHL0Lg7Mg-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":335959,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=335959","url_meta":{"origin":403038,"position":2},"title":"New Study: \u2018Carbon Dioxide And A Warming Climate Are Not Problems\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/07\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead, warmth and elevated CO2 are a boon for humanity. A new peer-reviewed paper published in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (May and Crok, 2024) counters the prevailing \u201cwisdom\u201d that says a warmer climate and greener vegetation are problematic.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO2)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO2)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/0wp4555644.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":330851,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330851","url_meta":{"origin":403038,"position":3},"title":"Carbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/06\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The featured image for this post, also shown below, is part of figure 2 from the paper. It shows the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index compared to the detrended HadCRUT4 global average surface temperature record, the similarity is obvious. The AMO is the North Atlantic sea surface temperature record, detrended.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)\"","block_context":{"text":"Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=atlantic-multidecadal-oscillation-amo"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0moc_diagram_f.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0moc_diagram_f.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0moc_diagram_f.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0moc_diagram_f.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0moc_diagram_f.jpg?fit=1200%2C491&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":330984,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330984","url_meta":{"origin":403038,"position":4},"title":"\u201cBonus\u201d Gets it wrong about May and Crok, 2024","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/06\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow! Our new paper \u201cCarbon Dioxide and a Warming Climate are not problems,\u201d in the\u00a0American Journal of Economics and Sociology\u00a0has struck a nerve, judging by the traffic about it on twitter. An anonymous twitter troll who calls himself \u201cBonus @TheDisproof\u201d has published what he (or she) calls a list of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"climate alarmism\"","block_context":{"text":"climate alarmism","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-alarmism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0planet-earth-and-the-sun-as-seen-from-space-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa_v1lbpnwje_thumbnail-1080_01.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0planet-earth-and-the-sun-as-seen-from-space-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa_v1lbpnwje_thumbnail-1080_01.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0planet-earth-and-the-sun-as-seen-from-space-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa_v1lbpnwje_thumbnail-1080_01.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0planet-earth-and-the-sun-as-seen-from-space-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa_v1lbpnwje_thumbnail-1080_01.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0planet-earth-and-the-sun-as-seen-from-space-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa_v1lbpnwje_thumbnail-1080_01.png?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":424622,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424622","url_meta":{"origin":403038,"position":5},"title":"Re-evaluating the Concern of Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/02\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve just been made aware of a paper critical of the \u201cconsensus\u201d view that man-made climate change is dangerous. It is by Ashutosh Sharma, Vinit Vithalrai Shenvi, and Mohit Sain of the MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology in India (or MSRIT) (Sharma et al., 2024). 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