Findings in leading scientific journal that globe has breached key warming milestone challenged by climate science experts

Findings in leading scientific journal that globe has breached key warming milestone challenged by climate science experts

Between 30 metres and 90 metres below the surface of the Caribbean Sea, an ancient sponge species that grows a hard skeleton has been quietly recording changes in the ocean temperature for hundreds of years.

Now those sponges are at the centre of a bold and controversial claim made in a leading scientific journal that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the planet may have already warmed by 1.7C – half a degree more than estimates used by the United Nation’s climate panel.

Several leading scientists urged caution, saying the research had “over-reached” and questioned whether such a bold claim could be made based on one sponge species from a single location.

But Prof Malcolm McCulloch of the University of Western Australia, who led the research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, said the results were robust.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    1130·
    10 months ago

    until someone finds a reason why this method might be unreliable, it isn’t controversial… it’s a scientific fact with implications…

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      93·
      10 months ago

      Hey, have you noticed how everyone is saying you’re wrong and nobody is upvoting your replies? Maybe take a moment to reflect on why that might be.

      • theodewere@kbin.social
        49·
        10 months ago

        there are a lot of trolls, and they like to congregate… they hope that by bullying someone they can make bad facts disappear…

        but it’s pretty obvious none of them have even made a serious trip to a university library

        these new numbers clearly are now the best estimate we have

        • Piafraus@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          You really need to calm down and reflect.

          I have a PhD and a dozen of published and recognized papers.

          You are misusing the term “fact”. Just because you think something is fact, does not make it so.

        • set_secret@lemmy.world
          13·
          9 months ago

          lol so funny people can’t read a paper and reactively downvote anyone who contradicts what they feel reality should be. You’re correct until we find a way to disprove this (eg somebody repeats it and finds it flawed) obviously robust study we need treat it as fact.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      9 months ago

      Different parts of the world are warming at different rates. So while it might be true that a part of the Caribbean warmed by 1.7 degrees, that doesn’t tell us much about the Earth as a whole.

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      9 months ago

      To anyone reading this comment thinking it makes a kind of sense on the surface (I’m no scientist) - keep reading. This comment is clearly meant to be just a bit of shit stirring