{"id":18306,"date":"2018-11-15T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18306"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:25:20","slug":"science-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/15\/science-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Science In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

From<\/a> WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth\u2019s oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are.<\/p>\n

Two weeks after the high-profile study was published in the journal Nature, its authors have submitted corrections to the publication. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, home to several of the researchers involved, also noted the problems in the scientists’ work and corrected a\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0on its website, which previously had asserted that the study detailed how the Earth\u2019s oceans \u201chave absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we made mistakes here,\u201d said Ralph Keeling, a climate scientist at Scripps, who was a co-author of the study. \u201cI think the main lesson is that you work as fast as you can to fix mistakes when you find them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Religious zealots don’t make mistakes, of course. But scientists? They have to deal with contingency in everything they do – their instruments, their calculations, their skills, all have some error associated with it, much like public pollsters do. Sometimes they get it wrong, and they have to retract it, because reality will rise up and smack them between the ears if they don’t. And don’t take too much reassurance from this report:<\/p>\n

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The central conclusion of the study \u2014 that oceans are retaining ever more energy as more heat is being trapped within Earth\u2019s climate system each year \u2014 is in line with other studies that have drawn similar conclusions. And it hasn\u2019t changed much despite the errors. But Keeling said the authors’ miscalculations mean there is a much larger margin of error in the findings, which means researchers can weigh in with less certainty than they thought.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Good to hear them working on getting it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From WaPo: Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth\u2019s oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are. Two weeks after the high-profile study was published in the journal Nature, its authors \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18306\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}