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Major Math Error Puts Widely-Cited Global Warming Study On Ice

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...ohedge.com&utm_term=69017&utm_content=2308590

The report was covered or referenced by MSM outlets worldwide, including the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Reuters and others.

The Washington Post, for example, reported: "The higher-than-expected amount of heat in the oceans means more heat is being retained within Earth’s climate system each year, rather than escaping into space. In essence, more heat in the oceans signals that global warming is more advanced than scientists thought."

The New York Times at least hedged their reporting, claiming that the estimates, "if proven accurate, could be another indication that the global warming of the past few decades has exceeded conservative estimates and has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios."

Unfortunately for the Princeton-Scripps team, it appears that their report has been proven inaccurate.
 



Resplandy et al. Part 2: Regression in the presence of trend and scale systematic errors

Posted on November 7, 2018 by niclewis | 100 comments
by Nic Lewis
In a recent article I set out why I thought that the trend in ΔAPOClimate was overstated, and its uncertainty greatly understated, in the Resplandy et al. ocean heat uptake study. In this article I expand on the brief explanation of the points made about “trend errors” and “scale systematic errors” given in my original article, as these are key issues involved in estimating the trend in ΔAPOClimateand its uncertainty.
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From the comments in the link at #3:

curryja [FONT=&quot]| November 8, 2018 at 1:44 pm | Reply[/FONT]
Resplandy now has a statement on her website: resplandy.princeton.edu
“We are aware the way we handled the errors underestimated the uncertainties. We are working on an update that addresses this issue. We thank Nicholas Lewis for bringing this to our attention.”
 
From the comments in the link at #3:

Joe H [FONT=&quot]| November 10, 2018 at 4:56 pm | Reply[/FONT]
Seems like they are startig to recognise the issues in the paper. Latest at one of the paper’s co-authors (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/study-ocean-warming-detected-atmospheric-gas-measurements) is as follows:
Note from co-author Ralph Keeling Nov. 9, 2018: I am working with my co-authors to address two problems that came to our attention since publication. These problems, related to incorrectly treating systematic errors in the O2 measurements and the use of a constant land O2:C exchange ratio of 1.1, do not invalidate the study’s methodology or the new insights into ocean biogeochemistry on which it is based. We expect the combined effect of these two corrections to have a small impact on our calculations of overall heat uptake, but with larger margins of error. We are redoing the calculations and preparing author corrections for submission to Nature.
Gavin Schmidt has also been tweeting about it – mind you he refers t it as a ‘minor issue in the Resplandy et al discussion’!
Interestingly, neither Keeling nor Resplandy make any reference to the OLS regression mean trend mis-calculation that Nic identified.
 
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...ohedge.com&utm_term=69017&utm_content=2308590

The report was covered or referenced by MSM outlets worldwide, including the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Reuters and others.

The Washington Post, for example, reported: "The higher-than-expected amount of heat in the oceans means more heat is being retained within Earth’s climate system each year, rather than escaping into space. In essence, more heat in the oceans signals that global warming is more advanced than scientists thought."

The New York Times at least hedged their reporting, claiming that the estimates, "if proven accurate, could be another indication that the global warming of the past few decades has exceeded conservative estimates and has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios."

Unfortunately for the Princeton-Scripps team, it appears that their report has been proven inaccurate.

And it will be business as normal with the media. The will run and run and run with stories that sensationalize things, but don't expect to see them print a single retraction.

No wonder the left side of the isle voter is so ignorant. They let the media tell them what to believe.
 
And it will be business as normal with the media. The will run and run and run with stories that sensationalize things, but don't expect to see them print a single retraction.

No wonder the left side of the isle voter is so ignorant. They let the media tell them what to believe.

Oh you know what it'll be. No big deal .Doesn't change anything. And not just the media but within the (lw ) science community.

They'll circle the wagons .Remember Climate gate ?
 
Oh you know what it'll be. No big deal .Doesn't change anything. And not just the media but within the (lw ) science community.

They'll circle the wagons .Remember Climate gate ?

I remember well how the faithful to the dogma believe whatever excuse and lies their prophets tell them. There is no breaking the faith of their religion. Facts don't matter.
 
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...ohedge.com&utm_term=69017&utm_content=2308590

The report was covered or referenced by MSM outlets worldwide, including the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC, Reuters and others.

The Washington Post, for example, reported: "The higher-than-expected amount of heat in the oceans means more heat is being retained within Earth’s climate system each year, rather than escaping into space. In essence, more heat in the oceans signals that global warming is more advanced than scientists thought."

The New York Times at least hedged their reporting, claiming that the estimates, "if proven accurate, could be another indication that the global warming of the past few decades has exceeded conservative estimates and has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios."

Unfortunately for the Princeton-Scripps team, it appears that their report has been proven inaccurate.



You Tube "I'm shocked!" Casablance

Indeed shocking news

from my collection of smart remarks and quotes:

If the Climate Change headline says,
"Worse than previously thought"
Historical data is being re-written.​

Or in some fashion fudged, dry labbed, gun decked, pencil whipped or just plain wrong.
 
Has the paper been withdrawn?

I see that warmists avoid this thread completely, how interesting.

Cheers.
 
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