Likewise, a person who is off base is someone who, like the baseball playing straying too far from base, is wrong in the head.
Something like that.
Now, recent media examples of “off base”, a quintessential American phrase:
1. Climate change doubters have seized upon a new accusation suggesting that scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated temperature data in a 2017 study on climate change to reach a desired conclusion. The accusations, scientists said, are off-base.
And they reiterate that global warming is happening and humans are primarily to blame.
The accusations, which began with a blog post by former NOAA scientist John Bates, spread across the internet — the Daily Mail's headline indicates "world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data." Bates' target is a study published in the journal Science that found no evidence for the so-called "climate change hiatus" — a 14-year period starting in 1998 during which the increase in the planet's temperatures reportedly slowed. (Climate change doubters have used this phenomenon as evidence the world is not warming.)
Rather, the researchers of the 2017 study, led by Tom Karl, the former director of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, found that "warming has continued at a pace similar to that of the last half of the 20th century, and the slowdown was just an illusion," they wrote in the study.
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