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</div><div><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Pattern Recognition in Physics</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Tattersall was briefly the editor of a journal titled Pattern Recognition in Physics, along with fellow climate change deniers Nils-Axel Morner</b>&nbsp;and J.-E. Solheim. The journal was dissolved after publishing only two issues. [37]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The publisher, C<b>opernicus Publications<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">terminated the publication after “the apparent misuse of the originally agreed aims & scope of the journal as well as the malpractice regarding the review process.”&nbsp;</span>[38]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“The editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis,</b>&nbsp;which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing and not in accordance with our publication ethics we expect to be followed by the editors,” Copernicus noted. [38]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Copernicus Publications pointed to one particular issue entitled&nbsp; “Pattern in<b>&nbsp;solar variability,</b>&nbsp;their planetary origin and terrestrial impacts” — the same issue that Tattersall proudly displayed on his blog, highlighting his position as editor. Copernicus Publications noted: [38]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">“Besides papers dealing with the observed patterns in the heliosphere, the special issue editors ultimately submitted their conclusions in which they ‘doubt the continued, even accelerated, warming as claimed by the IPCCproject’ (Pattern Recogn. Phys., 1, 205–206, 2013).” [38]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Describing that issue on his website, Tattersall had said:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“We hope this publication will be looked back on in future years as the seminal work of the paradigm shift to a new understanding of the Solar System and especially the Sun-Earth relationship</b>.”&nbsp; [37]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 35px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stance on Climate Change</font></p></div>