Posted on 11/20/2018 5:24:46 AM PST by deandg99
When the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN and other fact-challenged news outlets reported a few months ago that the oceans were warming at a catastrophic rate due to climate change, they all missed a glaring math error in the original science paper.
The paper, co-authored by Ralph Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was published in the science journal Nature. It erroneously claimed that ocean temperatures were skyrocketing at a rate that was 60 percent higher than the IPCCs known rate of ocean temperature trends. But the paper suffered from a glaring mathematical error that has since been exposed.
This erroneous conclusion was immediately seized upon by the left-wing media to claim that Trump was destroying the world by promoting fossil fuels which were causing so much warming that the world would soon come to an end.
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Peer Review is the modern equivalent of feudal guild coupled with church hierarchy: Destroy any competitors and punish any heretics. They are gatekeepers.
I have a background in the physical sciences, and my ears are deaf to any appeal to the ostensible authority of peer review. Let the science speak for itself.
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