Pat Michaels comments on the Eisenmann Saga

WUWT has some follow up analysis on the recent Eisenmann paper, which claims that some of the expansion of Antarctic sea ice in recent years is spurious and due to incorrect measurements (though he does not know when!).

Of mountains, molehills, and noisy bumps in the sea-ice record

The response is by Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger. There is little to add, but I found this comment by Pat summarises rather well how such nonsense gets to be published these days.

Of mountains, molehills, and noisy bumps in the sea-ice record

Pat Michaels says:
July 22, 2014 at 10:28 pm

There is a reason I wrote that there were problems in the reviewing process “at all levels”. The authors who let this thing go had to have had one last look at it. But they signed off. They did this despite indications that running everything after 2004 would invalidate the result. The editor had to have had one last look at it, after seeing the peer reviews. But he signed off.

If I were Eisenman’s Department Chair, I would have him in the office tomorrow, to explain how he could publish such a misleading paper. I would also advise that this wasn’t a good idea for an Assistant Professor at a tier-one research university. I would have the coauthors subject to inquiry, also. If I were Copernicus, the publisher, I would have the editor in the office to explain.

And then I would seriously consider retracting the paper.