He has spent his last day as Oregon State Climatologist. Today he plans to tell the Victoria Taft Show how this excommunication happened.
Here’s the story of the first dust up.

Here’s a good overall coverage of it and an excerpt:

Following a debate on climate change at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry last year at which Taylor expressed his contrarian ideas, Gov. Ted Kulongoski warned him to quit representing himself as the state climatologist (there is some dispute about how official the title is and whether the governor has the power to remove it).

Here’s the story of losing his title.
Here’s the fringe take on Taylor (of course it depicts him as a religious person (is he?) and, of course, a tool of big oil. They also claim him to deny global warming. He doesn’t, of course.
Meantime, another new study–this one from no less than the IPCC–says global warming has stalled out–because of Mother Nature. But they still want you to spend trillions on “stopping” “man-made” global warming. Al Gore: carbon offsets, anyone?
The story is here.

Researchers belonging to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in Nature (May 1) that, after adjusting their climate model to reflect actual sea surface temperatures of the last 50 years, “global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations… temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.”
You got that? IPCC researchers project no global warming over the next decade because of Mother Nature.
Although the result seems stunning in that it came from IPCC scientists who have always been in the tank for manmade global warming, it’s not really surprising since the notion of manmade climate change has never lived up to its billing.