Thread by @leafwax

So, do you all know who the lead author is of that 42,000-yr climate event Science paper? It's this guy. nature.com/articles/d4158…

This totally fits with the energy of the paper, which makes unsupported claims about both the genetics and paleoclimate data. Here's a great thread about problems with the former

https://twitter.com/johnhawks/status/1362877702122913799

For the latter, all you have to do is have a quick look at some of the best climate records we have - ice cores (high latitude) and speleothems (tropics), to see that *nothing happens* at 42,000 years.

https://twitter.com/tinyicybubbles/status/1362743531438227457

The fact that this paper survived peer review is something. That fact that a bully gets the limelight back - @nytimes and all - is something. The fact that he had the hubris to name his "event" is...something nytimes.com/2021/02/18/sci…

The co-authors on this paper include people that I know and respect. To them I say - how could you sign off on this, given the dubious science claims and this dude's history? We have to do better.

I for one will not be using the term "Adams event" 🤮

Coda: Adelaide was not the first time that Cooper got in trouble. He resigned from Oxford University in 2005 after an investigation into some "grant materials".
nature.com/articles/43539…