Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on the sun

[Judi Lynn]

ENVIRONMENT 4 March 2020
By Adam Vaughan



A study saying the sun caused climate change has been retracted
MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

A prominent scientific journal has retracted a study claiming that climate change was due to solar cycles rather than human activity.

Last year, Scientific Reports came under fire for publishing a paper that researchers said made elementary mistakes about how Earth moves around the sun.

Today the journal, published by Nature Research, which also has Nature in its stable of titles, formally retracted the paper by a team at UK universities and an institution in Azerbaijan.

The withdrawn study had argued that the average global 1°C temperature rise since the pre-industrial period was due not to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions but to the distance between Earth and the sun changing over time as the sun orbits the barycentre, the solar system’s centre of mass. In a statement today, Scientific Reports said that was inaccurate.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236103-major-science-journal-retracts-study-blaming-climate-change-on-the-sun/#ixzz6FrLy8uq8

[KT2000]

1. that takes away a RW talking point

that their followers believe. As one of them told me, only the sun can warm the planet.