A major publisher is in a hurry to pull a study questioning the climate crisis

Study claims that There is no evidence of the climate crisis Published in January in the prestigious Springer Nature group journal, to the chagrin of famous climate scientists interviewed by AFP, some went so far as to demand that it be withdrawn.

“Based on observational data, the climate crisis we are experiencing today, according to many sources, is not clear‘,” we read in the abstract of this 20-page study, which was published in January 2022 in The European Physical Journal Plus.

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The study, which has recently been relayed thousands of times on social networks and cited by many major media outlets, such as Sky News Australia, is presented as an analysis of data on possible changes in the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events — rainfall, cyclones, cyclones and droughts…

Four prominent climatologists contacted by AFP said the study manipulated the data, choosing certain facts on purpose and ignoring those that contradicted its thesis. “The article gives the impression that it was meticulously written to demonstrate that there is no climate crisis, rather than presenting an objective, complete and up-to-date study.Richard Bates, head of climate impact research at the Met Office, Britain’s weather service, said.

They write this article in bad faith.

Richard Bates noted that the authors, four Italian scientists, do not take into account the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was published a few months before their study was presented. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that the evidence for human-induced climate change is “reinforcedSince the previous report in 2014.

For Frederic Otto, a climate scientist at the Grantham Institute, “They are writing this article in bad faith“.”They don’t even have a separation from heat waves, where the observed trends are very clear“She added.”We cannot comment at this time.‘, was limited to responding to AFP’s Springer Nature, which asked him how such a study would be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

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Lead author, Gianluca Alimonte, is a physicist from the Institute for Nuclear Physics. The three co-authors are Luigi Mariani, agrometeorologist, and physicists Franco Prodi and Renato Angelo Ricci. that they “Don’t work in climatology” And the “He is clearly not familiar with the topic and related datasaid Stefan Ramstorff, co-chair of the Institute for Climate Impact Research in Potsdam.

the study “Not published in Climate Journal – This is a common route that climate skeptics take to avoid facing scrutiny by real experts in the field‘, he added. The four climatologists interviewed by AFP believed the study should never have been published, and two of them called for it to be withdrawn.

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For Peter Cox, Professor at the University of Exeter, the studyScientifically not good“But he is afraid to withdraw”It leads to additional publicity and may be presented as censorship“.

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