Consensus of climate scientists who believe in man made climate change is 75 people
"Consensus of climate scientists" who believe in man made climate change is actually only 75 people
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Talk about facepalm. The oft-repeated “consensus of climate scientists” who believe in man-made global warming is a pure fabrication from the global warming hysteria lobby. Only 75 scientists endorsed the IPPC’s position on human-caused climate change, not the 2,500 the media usually cites…just 75.
from National Post:
How do we know there’s a scientific consensus on climate change? Pundits and the press tell us so. And how do the pundits and the press know? Until recently, they typically pointed to the number 2500 – that’s the number of scientists associated with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those 2500, the pundits and the press believed, had endorsed the IPCC position.
To their embarrassment, most of the pundits and press discovered that they were mistaken – those 2500 scientists hadn’t endorsed the IPCC’s conclusions, they had merely reviewed some part or other of the IPCC’s mammoth studies. To add to their embarrassment, many of those reviewers from within the IPCC establishment actually disagreed with the IPCC’s conclusions, sometimes vehemently.
The upshot? The punditry looked for and recently found an alternate number to tout — “97% of the world’s climate scientists” accept the consensus, articles in the Washington Post and elsewhere have begun to claim.
This number will prove a new embarrassment to the pundits and press who use it. The number stems from a 2009 online survey of 10,257 earth scientists, conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois. The survey results must have deeply disappointed the researchers – in the end, they chose to highlight the views of a subgroup of just 77 scientists, 75 of whom thought humans contributed to climate change. The ratio 75/77 produces the 97% figure that pundits now tout.
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Instructions to mainstream media, liberal politicians, and global warming alarmists everywhere: Apply egg directly to face.
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