A feverish fate for scientific truth?
Some things are sacred to scientists: Facts, data, quantitative analysis, and Nature magazine, long recognized as the world's most prestigious science periodical.
Lately, many have begun to wonder if Jayson Blair has a new job as their science editor. On Page 616 of the April 8 issue, Nature published an article using a technique that it said, on Page 593 of the same issue, was "oversold," was inappropriately influencing policymakers and was"misunderstood by those in search of immediate results." The technique is called "regional climate modeling," which attempts to simulate the effects of global warming over areas the size of, say, the United States.
As reported by Quirin Schiermeier, scientists at a Lund, Sweden, climate conference, "admitted privately that the immediate benefits of regional climate modeling have been oversold in exercises such as the Clinton administration's U.S. regional climate assessment, which sought to evaluate the impact of climate change on each part of the country."
Then, 23 pages later, Nature published an alarming and completely misleading article predicting the melting of the entire Greenland ice cap in 1,000 years, thanks to pernicious human economic activity, i.e., global warming, using a regional climate projection.
Kevin T. - VRWLC Lying liars and the lies they tell
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