/sci/ - Science & Math

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Real climate /sci/ here. I personally know Shaun Marcott and his paper on Holocene reconstruction is such a shitshow for both climate change advocates who misunderstood his paper and deniers who attacked his results based on what tertiary articles on what they read about his paper rather than his paper instead.

Pic related is from
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/03/response-by-marcott-et-al/

If you read the paper, he literally never addressed the uptick and compare the rate of warming in the last 100 years to the Holocene records. That is not the point of the paper. The point of the paper is global temperature reconstruction through multiple proxies during the Holocene. What he did was he compared the peak temperature that he had reconstructed to our modern temperature based on instrumental record.

Unfortunately, his paper got read and misunderstood, yielding to inaccurate article like this
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/earth/global-temperatures-highest-in-4000-years-study-says.html?_r=1

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/were-screwed-11-000-years-worth-of-climate-data-prove-it/273870/

which in turn got blindly parroted by the democrat liberal sides of media including motherjones, Rachel Maddow, and co.

Since the print media misunderstood his paper, the backlash from deniers are totally justified; it should not be directed against him personally but should be directed against the mainstream press instead for their echo chamber nature and lack of critical thinking.

With regards to the difference between the figure in his thesis and in his paper, his thesis was done in 2011 and he published the paper in 2013. Since his thesis he added several datasets (claim that his thesis used exactly the same amount of datasets as the final paper is wrong and might be literally libel)