re: #12 Walter L. Newton

I’m glad they found these mistakes before it was too late… from the Guardian…

In a statement the authors of the paper said: “Since publication of our paper we have become aware of two mistakes which impact the detailed estimation of future sea level rise. This means that we can no longer draw firm conclusions regarding 21st century sea level rise from this study without further work.

“One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes.”

This is good science. The ability to admit mistakes and attempt to make the corrections needed.

The article is a very good example of good science and how science works, just in case you missed it above.

I linked to this because it presents a very positive view of how real professional scientist act and react to their work.

Notice the honesty and lack of over sensationalizing and the metered assessment of their work.

That’s good science.