Scientists Retract Paper on Rising Sea Levels Due to Errors

It is refreshing to see a journal retract a paper that was based on flawed data instead of continuing with the mantra that it may not be supported by facts but is still true which we have seen from some scientists/people who refuse to acknowledge that mistakes were made. Mistakes are going to be made in every field, but the failure to acknowledge those mistakes when caught are the reason so many people are questioning the remarks of climate scientists today.

A better explanation of why this paper was retracted is found in the article from Fox News:

Since the leak of e-mails from the U.K.'s top global warming scientists in early December, many other errors and sloppy mistakes have been uncovered in leading report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Would scientists have bothered to check their data they based their articles on without the leak of e-mails? We have our serious doubts. That said, we are impressed the climate scientists saw what had happened after the leaks and retracted their paper. It shows ethics on their part which has been sorely missing in the climate debate.

One question we have been unable to find an answer is "Why is there no peer review in the climatology field?" We have called several universities but have received no definitive answer to the question. Peer review most likely would have caught some of the errors and sloppy mistakes before Global Warming became such a huge issue. Even today some climatologists continue to cling to Global Warming is man made when they are many factors, but they want to continue their political agenda. It has costs nations billions to learn in the end the data was flawed and sloppy mistakes were made, but why won't the United Nations admit there is a real problem?

One suggestion we would like to make is that the United Nations get out of Global Warming field and concentrate on helping underdeveloped countries instead of empire building like they have been on Global Warming to push a political agenda of some environmentalists who have made millions off of Global Warming.

Updated February 22, 2010
Scientists Retract Paper on Rising Sea Levels Due to Errors

FOXNews.com

Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results.

In a NASA "what-if" animation, light-blue areas in southern Florida and Louisiana indicate regions that may be underwater should sea levels rise dramatically -- which may not be as likely as scientists once thought. The study was published in Nature Geoscience and predicted that sea levels would rise by as much as 2.7 feet by the end of the twenty-first century.

Scientists have been forced to retract a paper that claimed sea level were rising thanks to the effects of global warming, after mistakes were discovered that undermined the results.

The paper also highlighted that it reinforced the conclusions of the U.N.'s controversial Fourth Assessment report, which warned of the dangerous of man-made climate change.

However, mistakes in time intervals and inaccurately applied statistics have forced the authors to retract their paper -- the first official retraction ever for the three-year-old journal, notes the Guardian. In an officially published retraction of their paper, the authors acknowledged these mistakes as factors that compromised the results.

"We no longer have confidence in our projections for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and for this reason the authors retract the results pertaining to sea-level rise after 1900," wrote authors Mark Siddall, Thomas Stocker and Peter Clark.

Since the leak of e-mails from the U.K.'s top global warming scientists in early December, many other errors and sloppy mistakes have been uncovered in leading report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Flaws in weather stations have led some to question claims of rising temperatures, sloppy math led to holes in postulates that the Himalayas were rapidly melting and fears of a man-made food shortage in Africa seem unsubstantiated as well.

Source: Fox News