Findings in leading scientific journal that globe has breached key warming milestone challenged by climate science experts
Findings in leading scientific journal that globe has breached key warming milestone challenged by climate science experts
Between 30 metres and 90 metres below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, an ancient sponge species that grows a hard skeleton has been quietly recording changes in the ocean temperature for hundreds of years.
Now those sponges are at the centre of a bold and controversial claim made in a leading scientific journal that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the planet may have already warmed by 1.7C – half a degree more than estimates used by the United Nation’s climate panel.
Several leading scientists urged caution, saying the research had “over-reached” and questioned whether such a bold claim could be made based on one sponge species from a single location.
But Prof Malcolm McCulloch of the University of Western Australia, who led the research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said the results were robust.
That is absolutely antithetical to the scientific process. Nothing is considered 'fact' until rigorously proven. This is interesting evidence that absolutely warrants criticism.
Yea, why is it "one scientist said so despite their claim disputing the current standard! Fact now". This paper needs independent verification and follow up studies to confirm they didn't just massively fuck up their numbers or something else
the scientific process is demonstrated in their paper.. if you can find fault in their methods, then there is controversy, otherwise their findings are fact.. "criticism" in science is done with research, not comments on the internet or to news outlets..
To anyone reading this comment thinking it makes a kind of sense on the surface (I'm no scientist) - keep reading. This comment is clearly meant to be just a bit of shit stirring
Different parts of the world are warming at different rates. So while it might be true that a part of the Caribbean warmed by 1.7 degrees, that doesn't tell us much about the Earth as a whole.