The social pressures against running an article about problems
with alarmist science were enormous, but a scandal allowed them to make an end run around these social norms.
The meme of the «polar bears are drowning» is a classic example of worthless journalism and shoddy, climate
alarmist science.
The importance of this new study is that the authors very carefully specified reasonable simultaneous functional relationships between the most important climate science variables including the critical (in terms of
alarmist science) possible dual relationships between CO2 and global temperatures and then allowed the available data to determine the importance of each variable.
I guess Ms. Melanie missed the memos about the vast wealth that flows to
alarmist science and environmental pressure groups, which they extract both from taxpayers and extort from those same «polluters» she's talking about.