Global warming deniers suffer another blow

Scientists who believe global sea levels are going to rise even more than now predicted have scored a victory with the retraction of a less-alarming report from a scientific publication.

That's bad news for the global warming deniers and Climategate believers.

Here's what happened: Several scientists published a 2009 study in Nature Geoscience, predicting sea levels would go up 7cm and 82cm by 2100.

However, the authors recently retracted their findings, saying other scientists had pointed out a few mistakes with their methodology.

And who could that have been? Try Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Their prediction in another study in 2009: Sea levels would rise between 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100.

On the high level, that's more than twice the rise predicted by the now-retracted paper.

To read the details, here's the report from Rahmstorf and Vermeer. It talks about the errors made by the authors of the now-retracted report in Nature Geoscience.

The authors of the retracted paper pointed to Rahmstoorf and Vermeer as the reason behind the retraction.

via voices.kansascity.com

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