re: #80 dwells38

Why was this downdinged? Is it BS or do the models already take this into account?

Take what into account?

The article cited in Post #7 was discussed at some length downstairs, and found wanting. The core of it’s claims seems to be a paper which hasn’t yet been published; no citation for it was provided other than author and year, not even an “accepted for publication” notation. Here, it’s been asserted that it will be published in Science, but I haven’t seen any actual citation for that provided.

Once published, it’s certainly open for discussion. But until then, no one has any idea what it actually says, or whether the claims made for it are reasonable or not. Unfortunately, it isn’t completely unknown for folks on either side of this debate to be a bit overzealous in their claims, and especially so in their use of unpublished data, which often doesn’t pan out or in some cases even appear.