Wikipedia gives some context at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Giaever#Global_warming</a> .<p>> "nothing in science is incontrovertible"<p>Except for all those scientists who use "incontrovertible." Eg, a quick Google Scholar search for "incontrovertible physics" finds:<p>- <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/453866a</a> using the phrase "They also both observed the incontrovertible signature for Anderson localization..."<p>- <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quantum-Controversy-in-Action-Lamb-Schleich/0a460adbf03f997640fe50fbc76d21e7e55a956b" rel="nofollow">https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Laser-Physics%3A-Quant...</a> with "In particular, thestriking experimental demonstration of interference be-tween two condensates and the time evolution of a condensate provide incontrovertible evidence for BEC."<p>A search of Science Magazine finds articles like<p>- <a href="https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17" rel="nofollow">https://stke.sciencemag.org/content/2006/366/re17</a> "Advancements in techniques for empirically measuring single cells and in corresponding theoretical methods have enabled the rigorous design and interpretation of experiments that provide incontrovertible proof that there are important endogenous sources of stochasticity that drive biological processes at the scale of individual organisms."<p>- <a href="https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106" rel="nofollow">https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/294/294ra106</a> (full text available at <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731024/</a> ) "Moreover, seeing exactly the same DNA base pair mutated recurrently across patients has been taken as incontrovertible proof that the mutation must be under functional selection for contributing to tumor fitness (3)."<p>> "Second: the “measured” average temperature increase in 100 years or so, is 0.8 Kelvin."<p>The current average anomaly is 0.8 K. Relative to 1915 (100 years before 2015) it's risen 1.1 K. <a href="https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/" rel="nofollow">https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/</a> .<p>> "Forth: the maximum average temperature ever measured was in 1998, 17 years ago"<p>The average anomaly in 1998 was 0.62 K, and that statement no longer holds. Same source.