Air of Doubt: Exposing the largest and most costly scientific error in history - Paperback

by Frank A. Tinker (Author)

This book derives a climate model that accurately computes Earth's global mean temperature as a function of time up to millions of years before or after present. It accurately reproduces all known paleoclimate markers including isotope ratio and carbon dioxide abundances in ice cores. The key discovery that allows such an accurate model is the choice of orbit reference state that requires a minor correction to Kepler's Third Law. That improvement not only yields the improved temperature model but also resolves the Mercury perihelion precession anomaly.In the process of developing the model, numerous errors in the field of climate science were discovered and corrected. Those miscalculations are expected to cause turmoil in the scientific community for some time to come.