Guest Essay by Kip Hansen ? 18 October 2022

Every time someone in our community, the science skeptic or Realists community, speaks out about uncertainty and how it affects peer-reviewed scientific results, they are immediately accused to being Science Deniers or of trying to undermine the entire field of Science.

I have written again and again here about how the results of the majority of studies in climate science vastly underestimate the uncertainty of their results. Let me state this as clearly as possible: Any finding that does not honestly include a frank discussion of the uncertainties involved in the study, beginning with the uncertainties of the raw data and then all the way through the uncertainties added by each step of data processing, is not worth the digital ink used to publish it.

A new major multiple-research-group study, accepted and forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…