Frequently Anthony Watts (owner of the blog WUWT) copies and pastes a press release about a new scientific paper so his readers can have something new to mock. He usually starts his headline with the word "Claim", just so his followers know they aren't supposed to "believe" science. Many of his followers aren't too bright and they need these clues so they can tell how to respond.
Today Anthony puts aside his "claim" headline in favour of this (archived here):
Warming climates intensify greenhouse gas given out by oceans
From the University of Edinburgh and the department of soda pop science, comes something we already knew. I wonder who approved the grant for this one?
Anthony reckons this is something "we already knew". He doesn't spell out what he "already knew" but going by his "soda pop" reference, it's fairly clear that the paper discusses something that he didn't know already and he doesn't know now. He's confusing the findings of this study with the fact that CO2 dissolved in water will be released as the water warms. But that's not at all what this study was about. The study is about diatoms, silica, iron and carbon. (Click here to read more if you're on the home page.)
