[geo] Fake news

2018-08-10 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note: Thread from Jesse shows a media disaster unfolding. A combination of a widely-criticised study; paywalls; and careless, politically-slanted media serves to grossly and fundamentals mislead the voting public about our discipline. This is probably the most widely-reported study this ye

Re: [geo] Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions

2018-08-10 Thread Andrew Lockley
I really think this paper needs a rebuttal. I'm happy to work on it, even if that's just (uncredited) coordination. It's a disastrously bad situation when this kind of sloppy science achieves global prominence. A On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, 13:28 Douglas MacMartin, wrote: > And to add to Anthony, > >

RE: [geo] Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions

2018-08-10 Thread Douglas MacMartin
And to add to Anthony, -Data is too limited to do what they want (really only one major volcanic eruption, which is confounded by an El Nino, which they try to subtract off of the signal by assuming that every El Nino has an identical effect) -The solar dimming and many precipi