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Paper that claimed the Sun caused global warming gets retracted:
A paper published last June was catnip for those who are desperate to explain climate change with anything but human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. It was also apparently wrong enough to be retracted this week by the journal that published it, even though its authors objected.
The paper's headline conclusion was that it described a newly discovered cycle in the motion of the Sun, one that put us 300 years into what would be a thousand-year warming period for the Earth. Nevermind that we've been directly measuring the incoming radiation from the Sun and there has been no increase to explain the observed global warming—or that there is no evidence of a 2,000 year temperature cycle in the paleoclimate record.
Those obvious issues didn't stop some people from taking this study as proof that past warming was natural, and only mild and unavoidable warming lies in our future.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @05:46PM (4 children)
Andrew Wakefield's paper on the supposed link between vaccines and autism was also accepted. By The Lancet, no less.
And it too was retracted. Was it also for political reasons ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @06:39PM (1 child)
Evidently, "being wrong" is now a political reason. Of course, makes perfect sense, when we have a US administration that has all the best epidemics and a stock market to match!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @07:33PM
Global Warming doom and gloom is what interested people are using to freak out the young, while corona cold virus is for freaking out the oldies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @09:06PM (1 child)
So you believe that nothing is ever done for political reasons?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 07 2020, @09:48PM
Andrew Wakefield's paper on the supposed link between vaccines and autism was also accepted.