A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
Tag: Nature
Weaponizing Uncertainty: Climate Scientists Admit They Don’t Know—Then Demand You Obey Anyway
It would be nearly impossible to fabricate a better fictional demonstration of motivated reasoning than the May 2025 Nature commentary titled “Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role…
Nature Paper Claims to Pin Liability for ‘Climate Damages’ on Oil Companies
“Unlike every other branch of climate science or science in general, event attribution was originally suggested with the courts in mind.”
Why Isn’t the Mainstream Media Reporting that Ocean Circulation Is Doing Well?
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is not collapsing, is not slowing catastrophically, and is not about to trigger an Ice Age. The latest scientific research confirms what observational data has…
Scientists Find No Change in Global Warming Rate Since 1970 Despite “Hottest Year Ever” in 2023
A sensational science paper has blown holes in alarmist claims that global temperatures are surging. Just published results in Nature show “limited evidence” for a warming surge. “In most surface temperature time…
Patrick Brown: The Social Feedback Loops Constraining Climate Science
The highest-profile research is heavily influenced by cultural forces and career incentives that are not necessarily aligned with the dispassionate pursuit of truth.
When polar bears die, they die of starvation: new Nature paper is propaganda, not news
Starvation is a natural cause of death for polar bears and is virtually never caused by lack of sea ice.
I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published
To put it another way, I sacrificed contributing the most valuable knowledge for society in order for the research to be compatible with the confirmation bias of the editors and…
Is the Antarctic-driven abyssal ocean overturning doomed in 2050?
Further failures by Nature’s review and editorial process, combined with uncritical and amplified media promotion, have unnecessarily confused the science and public.
Sorry, Nature, Associated Press, etc., Climate Change Is Not Making Hurricanes ‘Wetter’
With the current limited state of knowledge, attribution studies are sideshow carnival crystal ball gazing, tea leave reading stuff, not serious scientific research.
Nature abandons science and embraces uniformitarian totalitarianism
Nature [2020 (586), 335] has now openly and finally abandoned any attempt at either scientific or political objectivity. In a scientifically semi-literate editorial, it writes: “Joe Biden’s trust in truth,…
A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling
From Nature Communications Andrea Saltelli Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 3870 (2019) | Download Citation While the crisis of statistics has made it to the headlines, that of mathematical…
UCI study blithely calls for $100 trillion shutdown of fossil plants to meet Paris climate goals
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The Los Angeles Times cavalierly suggests based upon a UCI study published in the journal Nature that the world needs to retire its fossil fuel…
Anti-GMO attitudes study Nature 2019
Submitted by Joel O’Bryan, PhD From NPR on-line, there is this news item: “People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding Of Food Science, Study Finds” January 26, 2019 7:00 AM…
Study: Sea Level Rise Revised Downward
Reposted from Roy Spencer’s Blog July 21st, 2017 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. If I had not looked past the headline of the press report on a new study,…
Monday merry – Nursery Rimes
Josh writes: On the eve of the opening of the COP 21 in Paris, a new study published Oct. 12 in the journal Nature Climate Change by an international team of researchers based…
The Met Office hides the decline, starring 'Doctor No'
I’ve come to think of Richard Betts as “Dr. No” mainly because he seems to say no to any possibility that the Met Office might not be giving out accurate…
Another benefit of increased CO2 – trees use water more efficiently
Warmist, document thief, and water expert Peter Gleick must be terribly conflicted by this news from USDA. Trees Using Water More Efficiently as Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises DURHAM, NH, July…
Some progress on the skeptic -vs- denier ugliness
Readers may recall this WUWT story: Nature’s ugly decision: ‘Deniers’ enters the scientific literature. Meanwhile, the discussion continues at John Nielsen-Gammon’s Climate Abyss website on Skeptics are Not Deniers, with…
Lord Leach of Fairford weighs in on Nature's 'denier' gaffe
I’ve still not received any reply from Nature Climate Change editor Rory Howlett to my query about why he allowed the term “deniers” in scientific literature (Bain et al), and…
Nature's ugly decision: 'Deniers' enters the scientific literature
We’ve known for sometime that there’s an underlying, sometimes overt display of hatred towards climate skeptics. However, it generally never made it into science publications. Unfortunately, the editors of the…
Using leaf veins to hindcast climate
From the University of California – Los Angeles Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine…
Knowing Nature & Ourselves (Part 1.)
One of the best ways to know something about the underwater world, including Great Barrier Reef ecosystems, is to strap an air tank to your back and step into the…