Climate Change Study has Significant Errors - Science is settled though.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110119/ts_afp/climatewarmingfood_20110119163335

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday.

The study was posted on the website of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was written about by numerous international news agencies, including AFP.

But AAAS later retracted the study as experts cited numerous errors in its approach.

"A reporter with The Guardian alerted us yesterday to concerns about the news release submitted by Hoffman & Hoffman public relations," said AAAS spokeswoman Ginger Pinholster in an email to AFP.

"We immediately contacted a climate change expert, who confirmed that the information raised many questions in his mind, too. We swiftly removed the news release from our Web site and contacted the submitting organization."

Scientist Osvaldo Canziani, who was part of the 2007 Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was listed as the scientific advisor to the report.

The IPCC, whose figures were cited as the basis for the study's projections, and Al Gore jointly won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change," the prize committee said at the time.

Canziani's spokesman said Tuesday he was ill and was unavailable for interviews.

The study cited the UN group's figures for its projections, combined with "the business-as-usual path the world is currently following," said lead author Liliana Hisas of the Universal Ecological Fund (UEF), a non-profit group headquartered in Argentina.

But climate scientist Rey Weymann told AFP that the "study contains a significant error in that it confuses 'equilibrium' temperature rise with 'transient temperature rise.'"

He also noted that study author Hisas was told of the problems in advance of the report's release.

"The author of the study was told by several of us about this error but she said it was too late to change it," said Weymann.

Scientist Scott Mandia forwarded to AFP an email he said he sent to Hisas ahead of publication explaining why her figures did not add up, and noting that it would take "quite a few decades" to reach a warming level of 2.4 degrees Celsius.

"Even if we assume the higher end of the current warming rate, we should only be 0.2C warmer by 2020 than today," Mandia wrote.

"To get to +2.4C the current trend would have to immediately increase almost ten-fold."

Mandia described the mishap as an "honest and common mistake," but said the matter would certainly give fuel to skeptics of humans' role in climate change.

"More alarmism," said Mandia. "Don't get me wrong. We are headed to 2.4, it is just not going to happen in 2020."

Many people do not understand the cumulative effect of carbon emissions and how they impact climate change, Mandia said.

"This is something that people don't appreciate. We tied a record in 2010 (for temperature records) globally. That is primarily from the C02 we put in the atmosphere in the 70s and early 80s, and we have been ramping up since then," he said.

"So it is not good. We are seeing the response from a mistake we were making 20 years ago, and we are making bigger mistakes today."

The public relations firm that issued the report on the UEF's behalf said the group stands by the study and would issue a statement to that effect.
 






SAY WHAT!?

I say you didn't even read the article. Pretty standard libtard response.

""The author of the study was told by several of us about this error but she said it was too late to change it," said Weymann"

This pretty much sums it up. The "scientist" was told of the errors in her report and she said it was to late. To late? Yea, her grant was probably about to run out and she needed additional funding.
 






So because of a few bad apples you are willing to condem the vast majority of scientist around the world that agree that man is causing the Earth to warm.

You and Vag should get together. You both erroneously believe that scientists agree on all sorts of things that they in fact don't. Oh, and the facts are not up to majority opinion. The facts are the facts and there are huge logical holes in what AGW scientists contend. Sorry, but you lose again!
 






So because of a few bad apples you are willing to condem the vast majority of scientist around the world that agree that man is causing the Earth to warm.

The data that they are using to come to this conclusion is falsified and/or incorrectly applied. The majority of scientist have not all done AGW research. They are assuming that the data that they read is correct, which of course is not per the actual statements of authors of the studies.

It is like going to a dealership and buying a car from a unreputable car salesman who tells you that this particular car was driven only on Sundays to and from church by the old lady who owned it. Its a 1984 Ford LTD with 23,000 miles on the odometer. Yea, right.
 
























Yes. I had a notion you would be. As for retreating glaciers, they do show scientist around the world that AGW is on. The only person you are making a fool of is U.


The Goober Warming scam has been exposed for what it is, but it is nice to see you cling to the religion of Goober Warming the way a muslime clings to his Koran prior to blowing himself up