Oceans more variable than previously thought, GWPF just as dishonest as previously thought

The Global Warming Policy Forum was established to avoid the UK Charity Commission's requirement of the "mother" organization that it stick to education and not political campaigning. True to its non-educational mission, it has a misleading post about a new study that looks at ocean temperatures over the past 7,000 years, finding they are more variable than initially thought.

The GWPF pretends to be evenhanded by publishing six paragraphs of the Phys.org write-up but shows its true colors by not printing the last three (important) paragraphs that go on to suggest temperatures will be even warmer than predicted! While Phys.org chose a title that stays true to the actual scope of the paper, "How variable are ocean temperatures?," the title of the GWPF post plays up the uncertainty angle, "Earth's climate more variable than thought, new study." In reality, however, the authors find that we "have to revise upward predictions of how much climate can regionally vary," which means we may be in for more warming than previously thought.

Yet again, we see that uncertainty is no excuse for inaction.