{"id":68564,"date":"2018-11-16T06:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68564"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:36:17","slug":"science-unsettled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68564","title":{"rendered":"Science, Unsettled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study that claimed that the oceans are warming 60% faster than the IPCC&#8217;s prediction turns out to have had a bit of an issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe findings of the &#8230; paper were peer reviewed and published in the world\u2019s premier scientific journal and were given wide coverage in the English-speaking media,\u201d Lewis wrote. \u201cDespite this, a quick review of the first page of the paper was sufficient to raise doubts as to the accuracy of its results.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"trb_ar_sponsoredmod\" data-v-ntidd=\"1069627\" data-adloader-networktype=\"nativo\" data-withinviewport-options=\"bottomOffset=100\" data-load-method=\"trb.vendor.nativo.init\" data-load-type=\"method\">\n<div class=\"trb_ar_nt\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Co-author Ralph Keeling, climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, took full blame and thanked Lewis for alerting him to the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were confronted with his insight it became immediately clear there was an issue there,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to have it be pointed out quickly so that we could correct it quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keeling said they have since redone the calculations, finding the ocean is still likely warmer than the estimate used by the IPCC. However, that increase in heat has a larger range of probability than initially thought \u2014 between 10 percent and 70 percent, as other studies have already found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur error margins are too big now to really weigh in on the precise amount of warming that\u2019s going on in the ocean,\u201d Keeling said. \u201cWe really muffed the error margins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A correction has been submitted to the journal Nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, to the crowd that thinks &#8220;I Heart Neil DeGrasse Tyson&#8221;\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;science&#8221;, the narrative is already set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study that claimed that the oceans are warming 60% faster than the IPCC&#8217;s prediction turns out to have had a bit of an issue: \u201cThe findings of the &#8230; paper were peer reviewed and published in the world\u2019s premier scientific journal and were given wide coverage in the English-speaking media,\u201d Lewis wrote. \u201cDespite this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68565,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68564\/revisions\/68565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}