Who would have thought that the Cult of Climastrology would put out a study with major errors designed to prop up their apocalyptic prognostications?
"Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth’s oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are." https://t.co/d9c3ts6GIO
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) November 14, 2018
More certain than they really are
(Daily Caller) The scientists behind a headline-grabbing global warming study did something that seems all too rare these days — they admitted to making mistakes and thanked the researcher, a global warming skeptic, who pointed them out.
“When we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,†study co-author Ralph Keeling told The San Diego Union-Tribune on Tuesday.
Their study, published in October, used a new method of measuring ocean heat uptake and found the oceans had absorbed 60 more heat than previously thought. Many news outlets relayed the findings, but independent scientist Nic Lewis quickly found problems with the study.
Keeling, a scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, owned up to the mistake and thanked Lewis for finding it. Keeling and his co-authors submitted a correction to the journal Nature. (snip)
So, while Keeling said they still found there’s more warming than previously thought, there’s too much uncertainty to support their paper’s central conclusion that oceans absorbed 60 percent more heat than current estimates show.
“Our error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that’s going on in the ocean,†Keeling told The Union Tribune. “We really muffed the error margins.â€
It’s a whopper of an error, and it sure appears as if someone was calling them on the errors in their doomsaying study. The only big question is, did they know about it beforehand, and try and pass it on like a chef trying to sell their slightly undercooked protein to the expediter, or was this just a missed error? With the CoC, one can never ignore their intentions.
And even if the oceans are warming a lot, it doesn’t prove mostly/solely anthropogenic causation.
