Go figure. Drudge Report slants the spin on the science 180 degrees from reality.
...the PETM
is a very singular event in the Cenozoic (last 65 million years). It was the largest and most abrupt perturbation to the carbon cycle over that whole period, defined by an absolutely huge negative isotope spike...
Of course, much of this is speculative given the difficulty in working out what actually happened 55 million years ago. The press response to the Zeebe et al paper was, however, very predictable.
the press release to get passed along by Marc Morano, posted on Drudge, and declared the final nail in the coffin for 'alarmist' global warming science on WUWT (Andrew Freedman at WaPo has a good discussion of this). The fact that what was really being said was that climate sensitivity is probably larger than produced in standard climate models seemed to pass almost all of these people by (though a few of their more astute commenters did pick up on it).
Regardless, the message went out that 'climate models are wrong' with the implicit sub-text that current global warming is nothing to worry about... headlines and titles that simply confirm someone's prior belief...
Thus a much better title for the press release would have been more specific ""Global warming: Our best guess is likely too small" – and much less misinterpretable!
Climate change press coverage gets weird
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
