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HN users are just like most people: smart in their area of expertise and wildly optimistic about how smart they are outside of it.



Maybe. Or we know junk science and fake data when we see it. I guess the 'replication crisis' doesn't apply to the holy climate science.


What do you mean by "replication crisis" in relation to this data?


> Sponges from the Caribbean retain a record of ocean temperatures stretching back hundreds of years.

That's not data. That's method. Probably cannot be replicated.




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