{"id":331,"date":"2006-07-28T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T18:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=331"},"modified":"2007-08-01T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:47:56","slug":"peter-doran-and-how-misleading-talking-points-propagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/07\/peter-doran-and-how-misleading-talking-points-propagate\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Doran and how misleading talking points propagate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Doran, the lead author on a oft-cited, but less-often read, Nature study on Antarctic climate in 2002<\/a> had an Op-Ed in the NY Times today<\/a> decrying the misuse of his team’s results in the on-going climate science ‘debate’. As we discussed a while back (Antarctic cooling, global warming?<\/a>), there is a lot of interesting stuff going on in Antarctica: the complexities of different forcings (ozone in particular), the importance of dynamical<\/a> as well as radiative processes, and the difficulties of dealing with very inhomogeneous and insufficiently long data series. But like so many results in this field, it has become a politicized ‘talking point’, shorn of its context, that is mis-quoted and mis-used by many who should (and often do) know better. Doran complained<\/a> about the media coverage of his paper at the time, and with the passage of time, the distortion has predictably increased. Give it another few years, maybe we’ll be having congressional hearings about it…<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Doran, the lead author on a oft-cited, but less-often read, Nature study on Antarctic climate in 2002 had an Op-Ed in the NY Times today decrying the misuse of his team’s results in the on-going climate science ‘debate’. As we discussed a while back (Antarctic cooling, global warming?), there is a lot of interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arctic-and-antarctic","category-climate-science","category-rc-forum","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t