Just to update the original topic

"The editor-in-chief of a climate science journal has resigned in response to an academic controversy triggered by his publication of a paper co-authored by a leading climate sceptic.

Prof Wolfgang Wagner wrote in an editorial published on Friday in Remote Sensing that he felt obliged to resign because it was now apparent to him that a paper entitled "On the misdiagnosis of surface temperature feedbacks from variations in Earth's radiant energy balance" by Roy Spencer and Danny Braswell, was "fundamentally flawed and therefore wrongly accepted by the journal"...
Full editorial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/02/journal-editor-resigns-climate-sceptic-
paper

Next week, Prof Andrew Dressler of the department of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, is due to publish a paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters offering a detailed peer-reviewed rebuttal of Spencer's paper.