Posted on 11/14/2018 10:57:42 AM PST by detective
About ten days back Nature magazine generated a lot of media attention for a study it published that purported to prove that the oceans were warming considerably faster than previously thought–up to 60 percent more.
Naturally this set off the climatistas (“The study drew considerable media attention, including from The Post,” as the Washington Post laconically put it), as though they need additional confirmation of their eschatology. There’s just one problem—one big problem. The study is riddled with errors. In a long blog post at Judith Curry’s website, Nic Lewis blew big holes in the paper. Here’s the key bit from Lewis’s conclusion:
The findings of the Resplandy et al paper were peer reviewed and published in the world’s premier scientific journal and were given wide coverage in the English-speaking media. Despite this, a quick review of the first page of the paper was sufficient to raise doubts as to the accuracy of its results. Just a few hours of analysis and calculations, based only on published information, was sufficient to uncover apparently serious (but surely inadvertent) errors in the underlying calculations.
Moreover, even if the paper’s results had been correct, they would not have justified its findings regarding an increase to 2.0°C in the lower bound of the equilibrium climate sensitivity range and a 25% reduction in the carbon budget for 2°C global warming.
Because of the wide dissemination of the paper’s results, it is extremely important that these errors are acknowledged by the authors without delay and then corrected. Of course, it is also very important that the media outlets that unquestioningly trumpeted the paper’s findings now correct the record too. But perhaps that is too much to hope for.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
More transparent fraud in a global warming study cited by the media.
It is eschatology.
It’s hard to believe Nature has fallen so far.
Typical and consistent with the UK’s deterioration.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/11/resplandy-et-al-correction-and-response/
That’s okay, they are about to drain through the melted ocean floor, so problem solved.
As long as that grant money keeps coming, we’ll continue to have these half a** studies.
Not for me. I remember when "Nature" was a simple journal reporting science. Then (in 1966) it fell into the hands of one John Maddox, a charlatan and polemicist who systematically abused the journal as a propaganda vehicle for his own political goals.
It has been downhill ever since.
I only know Nature since since Maddox was involved. First subscribed in 1985/6.
I remember the “water memory” article as the oddest thing they did back then.
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