Springer Nature retracts the study by four Italians that denies the impacts of the climate crisis

The publication underwent an internal review process.The article presented misleading conclusions

SpringerNature, one of the largest scientific publishers in the world, has withdrawn one study created by four Italian scholars, the nuclear physicist Gianluca Alimonti, the meteorologist Luigi Mariani and the two physicists Franco Prodi and Renato Angelo Ricci.The reason?The article presented misleading conclusions about the impact of climate change.The decision to withdraw the study came after an internal investigation following fact-checking by the agency Afp.And so, following an internal review process, the experts at SpringerNature found that the conclusions of the study were not "supported by available evidence or data provided by the authors", deciding to withdraw the article entitled A critical assessment of extreme event trends in times of global warming (Critical evaluation of the trend of extreme events in times of global warming, ed).

What the study published in Springer Nature reported

The study stated that "the climate crisis, which according to many sources we are experiencing today, is not yet evident."After the investigation of Afp the study underwent a trial of peer review by climate experts.At the end of the review process and following the authors' request for an addendum, «after careful consideration and consultation with all parties involved, the editors and publishers concluded that they no longer have confidence in the results and conclusions of the review. 'item".The editors of the journal published an official note explaining that the article was retracted because there were reservations about the "data selection, analysis and resulting conclusions".The requested addendum, as stated in the note, "was not considered suitable for publication", and consequently "the retraction was the most appropriate course of action to maintain high levels of scientific content published in the journal" , as explained at Guardian.