This just in: Retardedgate
Just stop it already. It's really, really stupid.
Here's some real, actual climate scientists to explain why.
Overall then, the IPCC assessment reports reflect the state of scientific knowledge very well. There have been a few isolated errors, and these have been acknowledged and corrected. What is seriously amiss is something else: the public perception of the IPCC, and of climate science in general, has been massively distorted by the recent media storm. All of these various “gates” – Climategate, Amazongate, Seagate, Africagate, etc., do not represent scandals of the IPCC or of climate science. Rather, they are the embarrassing battle-cries of a media scandal, in which a few journalists have misled the public with grossly overblown or entirely fabricated pseudogates, and many others have naively and willingly followed along without seeing through the scam. It is not up to us as climate scientists to clear up this mess – it is up to the media world itself to put this right again, e.g. by publishing proper analysis pieces like the one of Tim Holmes and by issuing formal corrections of their mistaken reporting. We will follow with great interest whether the media world has the professional and moral integrity to correct its own errors.
Here's some real, actual climate scientists to explain why.
Overall then, the IPCC assessment reports reflect the state of scientific knowledge very well. There have been a few isolated errors, and these have been acknowledged and corrected. What is seriously amiss is something else: the public perception of the IPCC, and of climate science in general, has been massively distorted by the recent media storm. All of these various “gates” – Climategate, Amazongate, Seagate, Africagate, etc., do not represent scandals of the IPCC or of climate science. Rather, they are the embarrassing battle-cries of a media scandal, in which a few journalists have misled the public with grossly overblown or entirely fabricated pseudogates, and many others have naively and willingly followed along without seeing through the scam. It is not up to us as climate scientists to clear up this mess – it is up to the media world itself to put this right again, e.g. by publishing proper analysis pieces like the one of Tim Holmes and by issuing formal corrections of their mistaken reporting. We will follow with great interest whether the media world has the professional and moral integrity to correct its own errors.
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Permalink Reply by Hillbilly on -
Last month we talked about the silliness of the idea that the antarctic (where penguins live, not Santa) is gaining ice at the same time sea levels are rising and now we have confirmation of common sense.
Sea levels no longer rising
The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.
The paper – entitled "Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change" – used fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements to reconstruct how sea level has fluctuated with temperature since the peak of the last ice age, and to project how it would rise with warming over the next few decades.
In a statement the authors of the paper said: "Since publication of our paper we have become aware of two mistakes which impact the detailed estimation of future sea level rise. This means that we can no longer draw firm conclusions regarding 21st century sea level rise from this study without further work.
"One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/21/sea-level-geoscie...
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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on -
By Jove, you've done it! You've proven global warming false with a single link! It's a good thing you didn't quote any of it out of context, or one might be able to actually read the article and see that you've completely missed the point. Yeah, but you'd never do anything like that just to try and score a few dubious points in an already tenuous argument, would you? So, we don't even have to bother reading it, do we?
Oh, wait:
Many scientists criticised the IPCC approach as too conservative, and several papers since have suggested that sea level could rise more. Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in December that projected a rise of 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100.
Siddall said that he did not know whether the retracted paper's estimate of sea level rise was an overestimate or an underestimate.
Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: "It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science."
"Retraction is a regular part of the publication process," he said. "Science is a complicated game and there are set procedures in place that act as checks and balances."
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Seriously? That's your source? Look up all the other non-NASA findings.
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Here's my reply
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Here;s my reply:
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Like a bad tooth.
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Permalink Reply by Van on -
If i were the Democratic party leaders I would try to make every election a referendum on Dubya and Cheney and try to tie every Republican politician to them. They are only slightly more popular than Bin Laden. Only in the bizarro world of the teabaggers is Bush considered to be a good president. Via wikipedia:
n the Bizarro world of "Htrae" ("Earth" spelled backwards), society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!". In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you". Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro No. 1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is intended and taken as a great compliment.
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Permalink Reply by Fang1944 on -
E.g.,
Reagan triples the national and illegally sells guns to Iran--people who have vowed to kill Americans whenever they can. Let's put him on Mt. Rushmore.
Bush takes a booming economy and turns it into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Gosh, I miss him already.
We just finished the hottest decade on record, and we've had a 130-year warming trend. The earth must be cooling.
We have 30,000 gun deaths per year (about 10,000 gun murders, about 15,000 gun suicides). We need fewer restrictions on guns.
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