What causes a scientific paper on storm damage caused by Global Warming to be rejected by a Journal, as needing a "major revision"?

It's a trick question.  Orthodox papers by the friends and supporters of the IPCC would never have been rejected.

And Deniers Skeptics those not friends and supporters of IPCC orthodoxy won't be told what it is they have to revise.

Wow.  Good thing that the CRU's Dr. Jones was able to get the editor of Geophysical Research Letters fired a few years ago.  Who knows what might have been published under those arbitrary standards?

Will every Progressive who ever spoke the words "Republican war on science" please shut up and sit down in the back of the room?  Grown ups are talking.