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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 08 2020, @08:25PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 08 2020, @08:25PM (#968272) Journal

    I like that graph. The first time I saw it, I scrolled up and down and up again, because it does kinda help put things into chronological order.

    Thing is, I believe that bottom little bit is exaggerated. Old Al Gore and his hockey stick chart? This doesn't look as bad, but it seems to fall into that category or alarmism.

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  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:30AM (1 child)

    by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:30AM (#968910) Journal

    I don't trust very many people or companies because they exaggerate and are alarmist, but I do trust Randall Munroe (creator of XKCD). He's a deep thinker and very insightful. I encourage you to check out the rest of his website. Now, I'll be honest, I haven't double checked his sources, but Randall is obsessively thorough. His sources are listed at the top of the comic on the right, if you decide to explore more deeply.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:28PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @02:28PM (#970226) Journal
      Then where are the error bars? Why is the graph very smooth until the age of instrumentation? Sorry, that graph is one of his biggest failures because it sells a narrative rather illuminates the issue.