Global warming of +10C is ====>!!NOT!!<==== a reasonable expectation (erratum et apologia)

[joshcryer]

30. Carl Lipo and Terry Hunt have some wrong ideas about what happened.

They are completely wrong in every way. National Geographic got duped.

They base their entire premise on a later arrival of the inhabitants, a basis which is not supported by their "work" since they ... haven't published it. It flies in the face of the rest of the evidence, and they even have to pull out an "outlier" and implausible explanation for the deforestation (rats, which don't affect the other islands in that region in that way), in fact there were previous studies which showed that rats wouldn't have that effect, yet they chose not to even cite the paper.

Classic denialist approach. Cite the evidence you want (and even evidence you don't have), then when there's evidence to refute it, ignore it. For example, the protracted wars between the inhabitants are well established, hundreds of skeletons show damage, but they chose to cite an old outdated report where someone said there was no evidence of that kind of thing.

Here is a sufficient enough refutation of the authors works.

They wanted to paint a contrary narrative, and they didn't do the science to back it up, so they weaseled, that's what I see anyhow.