The IPCC told the world that AGW ‘science is settled’ and even if there were a few doubts there is a consensus among scientists that man does affect the weather climate. In fact, the IPCC used big numbers in its marketing graphics for the deeply flawed AR4:
But it turns out that the consensus claim is as bogus as the idea of Himalayan glaciers being melted by 2035. Recent claims about the consensus suggest 97% of scientists agree that global warming is man made, but the gerrymandering required to get that high confidence level is astounding:
The two researchers started by altogether excluding from their survey the thousands of scientists most likely to think that the Sun, or planetary movements, might have something to do with climate on Earth – out were the solar scientists, space scientists, cosmologists, physicists, meteorologists and astronomers. That left the 10,257 scientists in disciplines like geology, oceanography, paleontology, and geochemistry that were somehow deemed more worthy of being included in the consensus. The two researchers also decided that scientific accomplishment should not be a factor in who could answer – those surveyed were determined by their place of employment (an academic or a governmental institution). Neither was academic qualification a factor – about 1,000 of those surveyed did not have a PhD, some didn’t even have a master’s diploma.
The survey results were only returned by about 30% of respondents, but the results weren’t as convincing as warmists wanted. So they did what any decent ideologue would do and made further adjustments:
…the two researchers must have feared that an 82% figure would fall short of a convincing consensus – almost one in five wasn’t blaming humans for global warming — so they looked for subsets that would yield a higher percentage. They found it – almost — in those whose recent published peer-reviewed research fell primarily in the climate change field. But the percentage still fell short of the researchers’ ideal. So they made another cut, allowing only the research conducted by those earth scientists who identified themselves as climate scientists.
Once all these cuts were made, 75 out of 77 scientists of unknown qualifications were left endorsing the global warming orthodoxy.
Hippies are running out of supporting arguments to prop up the global warming fakery, pretty soon all they’ll have left is the ‘Shut UP’ explanation.
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That’s about the level of ethics that I’d expect fromt the warminestia crowd.
All academics, professors,scientists, etc.,who pushed this nonsense, should lose their jobs. Al Gore is either a con-man or a naive fool. If the former he should be arrested.
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