New data. I guess that’s scientific BS for made up data just like global warming. All new data that nobody can recreate or analyze only the gifted scientists can interpret the tea leaves. Of course they will need millions and millions of dollars in grant money to unlock the secrets that the new data have revealed.
/sarc
This is a theory and unlike anthropogenic global warming theory it is falsifiable. Go for it. But the money could be better spent studying the politics of same sex bathrooms. /sarc
-—— taken from drilling cores from the ocean floor in the South Atlantic...——
there was apparently new data that was in fact scarce. The analysis yielded info from which a hypothesis could be drawn. They were not viewing tea leaves but actual subsurface materials containing actual organic matter that could be analyzed.
As to weather they were gifted or just run of the mill, they went into the field and found something to study and did so. It is real science in action