Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 02/22/2010 9:03:54 AM PST by Signalman
Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results.
The study was published in Nature Geoscience and predicted that sea levels would rise by as much as 2.7 feet by the end of the twenty-first century.
The paper also highlighted that it reinforced the conclusions of the U.N.'s controversial Fourth Assessment report, which warned of the dangerous of man-made climate change.
However, mistakes in time intervals and inaccurately applied statistics have forced the authors to retract their paper -- the first official retraction ever for the three-year-old journal, notes the Guardian. In an officially published retraction of their paper, the authors acknowledged these mistakes as factors that compromised the results.
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What about Gore’s melodramatic poem about Neptune’s bones and crying shepherds?
Science isn't what it used to be.
Ping of minor interest.
Statistics, found similar to IPCC (reinforcing the IPCC’s own numbers), are withdrawn (not corrected) due to the gross error needed to arrive at their conclusion.
Wasn’t it just a few years ago that the science was settled.
Just ask Dr. Nils-Axel Morner - head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
Excellent five page article knocks the manatee poop out of "rising sea levels."
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