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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday March 07 2020, @01:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the sunny-disposition dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 08 2020, @07:52PM (#968264)

    It is funny (in a sad way) how when people like him get a horrible disease or sickness, how quickly they become believers in science. Never mind that it is the same methodologies and chemistry that governs both. Very few have the conviction to not switch teams when their end is in sight. It's ok to screw over people several decades out, but when their ass is on the line it is "SAVE ME SCIENCE!!! [gocomics.com]"

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 09 2020, @12:30AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday March 09 2020, @12:30AM (#968347)

    That sounds like the wife of a good friend of mine who converted to Jehovah's Witness sometime after they got married.

    When he had a serious motorbike accident she made sure he got the blood transfusions he needed though. Funny how that works.