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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
It was retracted in nature, it wasn't made obsolete or superceded. So it was at least junk science and incompetence, at worse possibly fraud. It was described as systemic errors in data collection and inconsistencies in testing methods.
Retracted in nature is bad. You are not going to spin this one into less than what it is.
So the study is going to have to be completely redone. Which means the results would be completely different.
To assign an order of magnitude to the error would be pure speculation.
If man made global warming is settled science then how come these reports get made obsolete and replaced?
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Thanks.Finally some insight into your comment.If published in NATURE,the article would have been screened before being accepted for publication,peer-reviewed by an expert jury of colleagues in the same field of study,who might ask for clarifications or additional material,etc.,before it ever made it to publication.It's surprising that is wasn't thrown out early in it's genesis if it were so flawed.If it were a university paper,it would appear that no one was minding the store.Not a good reflection on the school.
Typically,thousands of scientists are involved in the IPCC reports,from every field of study,in overlapping teams.
Was the Ocean report of the IPCC predicated upon a single submission? That would seem improbable.Or was this something just handled internally at NATURE?
As to settled science,the only scientists whom are not onboard with climate science are petroleum geologists.When the numerical models are run backwards and forwards,the output match the observed conditions.That's all they could ask for.Sensors improve,computers get faster,and models become more comprehensive,but since 1995,the models have been working out,with correct predictions.
It was taking 4-years to put an IPCC report together,and two years before publication,new submissions were locked out,so historically,what did make it to publication could easily be obsolete,as it was at least 2-years out of date.
Not a perfect situation.