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Serious mistakes found in recent paper by Connolly et al.

29 Nov 2022 by rasmus

Guest post by Mark Richardson who is a Research Scientist in the Aerosol and Clouds Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. All opinions expressed are his own and do not in any way represent those of NASA, JPL or Caltech.

Should scientists choose to believe provably false things? Even though that would mean more inclusive debates with a wider range of opinions, our recent paper Richardson & Benestad (2022) argues no: “instead of repeating errors, they should be acknowledged and corrected so that the debate can focus on areas of legitimate scientific uncertainty”. We were responding to Connolly et al., who suggested that maybe the Sun caused “most” of the warming in “recent decades” based on a simple maths mistake. 

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References

  1. M.T. Richardson, and R.E. Benestad, "Erroneous use of Statistics behind Claims of a Major Solar Role in Recent Warming", Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 22, pp. 125008, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/ac981c

Filed Under: Climate Science, Instrumental Record, Scientific practice, skeptics, statistics, Sun-earth connections

Unforced variations: Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 by group

This month’s open thread. Anyone read Greta Thunberg’s book? or have an opinion about soup?

Be substantive, be polite, be talking about climate.

Filed Under: Climate Science, Open thread Tagged With: greta thunberg

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