Recent research suggested that planet Earth is facing greater warming than it was previously revealed. However, prominent climate scientists have dismissed the study which warns of a 13 degree Fahrenheit and has said that it is overstated and is full of flaws.
A complete reconstruction of temperatures of the global sea surface was done and published in the science journal, Nature. The to-date temperature record has the sea surface temperatures for the past two million years and is undoubtedly a valuable climate record.
The conclusion drawn from the research states that the prevention of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere will not have much of an impact as planet Earth will still have a rise in temperature of up to 7 degree Celsius (or 13 degrees Fahrenheit), which is catastrophic. However, scientists point out that the conclusion that has been drawn from the research is flawed and lacks data to support it, National Geographic reported.
According to the news outlet, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies' chief, Gavin Schmidt has termed the conclusion to be simply wrong. Schmidt further states that the temperature may rise by 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius and some studies also suggest a 2-degree rise if greenhouse gas emissions are halted now. However, a rise of 7-degrees that is being suggested by the study is way too much and it is also not supported by evidence that is credible.
Moreover, San Diego's Scripps Institution for Oceanography paleoclimatologist, Jeffrey Severinghaus has stated that the conclusion is not in sync with the study and it is based on a fundamental error.
University of Washington's earth sciences professor, Eric Steig has said that Synder is making a claim that is huge but there is nothing in the paper that actually explains the conclusion that she has derived.
The study's author, Carolyn Snyder, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency and is Stanford University's former postdoctoral researcher has clarified that she did not want to put forward a climate forecast, but her study of the link between sea surface temperature and the release of carbon dioxide naturally, suggested that several thousand years from now, Earth will see the drastic rise in temperature even if caps are imposed on fossil fuel emission now.
Notably, other scientists feel that Snyder has overstated the situation that we have in hand today.
