Some huge news dropped today that will reverberate through climate science and policy. Nature has finally retracted “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change,” by Kotz et al. (KLW24), more than 18 months after first learning that the paper was fatally flawed, with the authors acknowledging that its errors are “too substantial” for a correction.
It is not just the retraction that matters — that’s long overdue — but the reaction to the retraction, which indicates that while the old ways still have a grip on the climate discussion, things may be changing for the better.
Back in August, I explained the growing scandal around KLW24: It wasn’t just a fatally flawed paper, but a flawed paper that had taken on outsized influence in climate advocacy and policy.
The people who are living in dire fear and refusing to look at the possibility that they have been played in the largest of ways … deserve what they are living with,
Because these gullible idiots make the rest of us upset and embarrassed at their utter stupidity …
I am delighted with their daily suffering and their horrid fear that soon we will a burning ball in space … kinda like a small sun, or however Greta predicted it would be … and very soon as usual.
Anyone gonna tell Marx Carnage or his imbecilic wife?
Yeah, no.
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled,”
Funny how 3 climate scientists can write about the economic effects but you have to be climate scientist to write about the scientific effects.
Oh noes!…a peer-reviewed paper so flawed that it cannot even be saved?
Say it isn’t so! Everyone knows that peer review makes everything 100% legitimate and unassailable, right?
(Killer Marmot hardest hit)
Hey, if peer review is good enough for the House of Lords, it’s good enough for me!
I have never claimed that peer review “makes everything 100% legitimate and unassailable”.
But that makes little difference to Fred from BC, who makes crap up out of whole cloth.
You’ve consistently ignored or downplayed evidence that the peer review system is not working, and has not been working for an extended period of time. Between the Replication Crisis and BROGDINGNAGIAN RODENT SCHLONG the credibility of the scientific establishment is in tatters.
“the credibility of the scientific establishment is in tatters.”
It absolutely is, yet KM can still be relied upon to ineptly defend it *every single time* this is pointed out.
Pielke Jr. does an excellent job of putting climate change issues into context. He knows the science and meticulously backs up his claims.
For this, he was mercilessly hounded and drummed out of the ‘climate change expert’ fraternity.
Worth looking up his stuff.
What’s that old saw? A lie makes it’s way halfway around the planet before the truth gets its pants on? More than 18 months this POS paper has been given the green light. How many [spit] Progs have read it/digested it/referred to it as gospel? How many are going to read about the retraction?