Climate change might be worse than thought after scientists find major mistake in water temperature

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Link to study abstract: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01225-9

Link to Independent article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/climate-change-worse-water-temperature-reading-scientists-global-warming-ice-melt-weather-a8020696.html

Climate change might be worse than thought after scientists find major mistake in water temperature readings
Andrew Griffin

Global warming might be far worse than we thought, according to a new study.

The research challenges the ways that researchers have worked out sea temperatures until now, meaning that they may be increasing quicker than previously suggested.

The methodology widely used to understand sea temperatures in the scientific community may be based on a mistake, the new study suggests, and so our understanding of climate change might be fundamentally flawed.


The new research suggests that the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago were much cooler than we thought. If true, that means that the global warming we are currently undergoing is unparallelled within the last 100 million years, and far worse than we had previously calculated.
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[marylandblue]

1. Unfortunately the deniers will use this as "proof" we don't know anything

[BigmanPigman]

2. I think that most intelligent people assume that

we only know and comprehend about 1% of the information that is already evident. We just do not have the experience and tools to be able to really understand most of what the earth and atmosphere are showing us. That is why we are always acting on evidence that is about 20 years after the changes have already occurred. We will always be playing "catch up" and therefore the earth will be destroyed before we are able to do anything to change it.

[BootinUp]

3. Scary shit. Boo!!!! Let's hope

it's not quite so bad.

[defacto7]

4. K&R

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Almost every story especially ones about changing climate are all

Faster than expected
Worse than expected
Sooner than expected

Seems like these scientists are new at their jobs.