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New Paper Claims “No Experimental Evidence for Anthropogenic Climate Change”

10 points by alistproducer2 ↗ HN
I'm not posting this because I am a denier, but I read through it and it does make some interesting data-supported claims. Anyone in a related field care to read it over and give an informed opinion on the paper's quality?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf

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msingle
I'm really suspicious of any paper when 5 of the 6 citations are by the same authors.
maxander
Remember that Arxiv is not a scientific journal. Anyone* can post whatever they want there. It’s full of proofs of P=NP and zero-point energy designs and whatnot.

Looking at their argument itself, they seem to be saying that increased temperatures can be attributed to increased cloud cover rather than anthropogenic CO2. I don’t necessarily have the expertise to say whether that holds water, but even if so, it begs the question- what’s driving the increase in cloud cover? The correlation with anthropogenic CO2 remains unaccounted for.

(*Anyone associated with a college or university, or who has such a person vouch for them, or etc. It’s a bit like getting an invitation to gmail back when it was “in beta.”)