Re:Experience how contrails impact the climate
by mlyle on Sunday May 07, 2023 @09:45PM
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> Ok but what issues do you have with the argument itself / methodology?
Sorry-- I can't read every paper by every known crank and debunk it. It's an unattainable goal. I would have to pull all the data and analyze it again myself.
If you have an author who has committed great methodological errors in data analysis multiple times in the past and this is a documented fact, you stop taking that person seriously.
Here, it shares a lot of characteristics with papers he's written in the past-- possible censoring of data (picking one country, and a dubious date range for the comparison series) and ignoring other well known effects related to the COVID shutdowns (reduction in particulate emissions causing a pop in daily temperatures).
Sorry-- I can't read every paper by every known crank and debunk it. It's an unattainable goal. I would have to pull all the data and analyze it again myself.
If you have an author who has committed great methodological errors in data analysis multiple times in the past and this is a documented fact, you stop taking that person seriously.
Here, it shares a lot of characteristics with papers he's written in the past-- possible censoring of data (picking one country, and a dubious date range for the comparison series) and ignoring other well known effects related to the COVID shutdowns (reduction in particulate emissions causing a pop in daily temperatures).