CST: Sea Rise Claim Withdrawn Plus Others
Collapsing Science Today: Yet again, a supposed peer reviewed report in a major journal, and used by the UN IPCC, has issues. Shocking!
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.
The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.
At the time, Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol, said the study “strengthens the confidence with which one may interpret the IPCC results“. The IPCC said that sea level would probably rise by 18cm-59cm by 2100, though stressed this was based on incomplete information about ice sheet melting and that the true rise could be higher.
Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: “It’s one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science.” He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study’s conclusion.
It would probably be irresponsible and rude to say that the study was probably looking to strengthen the UN IPCC’s hysterical conclusions, wouldn’t it? That they wanted a certain outcome? Especially since the sea, at this time, is not rising. That is not to say that, in the past, and in the future, it won’t. It probably will. It has been slowly rising over the past 7,000 years, after most of the melt from the end of the last ice age 18,000 years ago, when it rose dramatically for 11,000 years. Over the last 7k, it has been up and down.
But, hey, good news! The EPA considered classifying water vapor a “pollutant.” Could water vapor be the next AGW demon?
Finally, here comes the next bubble-carbon trading
According to Mr Schapiro, carbon trading is now the fastest growing commodities market on earth. Since Kyoto signatories bought in to the cap and trade concept in 2005, there have been more than $300bn carbon transactions, prompting several investment banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, to set up their own carbon trading desks. But that’s just the start. If President Obama and his supporters can institute a cap-and-trade system in the United States – and that’s a big if for this increasingly marooned presidency – demand could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market.
And here’s the great thing about it. Unlike traditional commodities markets, which will eventually involve delivery to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no-one. Since the market revolves around creating carbon credits, or finding carbon reduction projects whose benefits can then be sold to those with a surplus of emissions, it is entirely intangible.
‘Nuff said.
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Posted by William Teach on February 22, 2010 10:00 am
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Hey, doesn’t that kill off the new EPA division Obama was setting up? I saw one of the designers of it saying it would serve as a centralized data storage point for anyone interested in the future impact of global warming like (and I kid you not) if a developer was going to build a seashore resort, they might want to know if that land will be underwater in twenty years.
Sorry, I almost pulled a hammy laughing again. I’m okay now. BUT I am curious when Newt is going to pull down his websites and put up a “Oops.”
No wonder the IPCC must be stopped! It’s guilty of time travel! Even though its last report came out in 2007, according to this post it used research published in 2009!!
STOP THE PARADOX
Obama has already bought into the LIE. So naturally he should set up the LIE CLEARING HOUSE. Where lies can be spread by GOVERNMENT FIAT.
If all one read was the introduction, a reader might get the false impression that sea level rise from global warming is in doubt. The misleading Guardian headline was picked up — as per usual — by the Drudge Report and Marc Morano’s conspiracy site Climate Depot.
However, the retraction instead admits that the paper’s calculations for an upper bound to future sea level rise were incorrect, and sea level rise could be much worse. Siddall’s study, “Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change,” used paleoclimate reconstructions to predict that sea level rise from global warming would be constrained to between 7 cm and 82 cm (3 to 32 in) by the end of the century, in line with the estimated sea level rise in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which excluded possible effects from ice sheets.
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n8/full/ngeo587.html