Global Warming on Free Republic
Posted on 05/16/2013 6:37:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
An overwhelming 97 percent of climatologists endorse the idea of human-caused global warming.
As if the backing of NASA, 18 independent American scientific societies, and an intergovernmental panel established under the United Nations weren't enough to quell the protests popping up in comment sections across the Internet, a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters confirms — once again — that climatologists almost unanimously believe that climate change is directly related to human-made carbon emissions.
Researchers pored over nearly 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers from 1991 to 2011. These papers, according to Michael Todd at Pacific Standard, represented the work of 29,083 authors and 1,980 journals. The conclusion could hardly be stronger: 97 percent of scientists agree that anthropogenic, or human-caused, global warming exists.
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"That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one," adds Todd.
"The public perception of a scientific consensus on [anthropogenic global warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy," conclude the study's authors. And yet, according to Pew Internet Research (PDF), 57 percent of Americans are unaware that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus.
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9 out of 10 dentist recommended dentine for their patients that chew gum.
Imagine. 97% of “climatologists” who live off of government grants are saying the manmade climate change is real and that the government should continue to support research to prove it.
Note this intriguing point at the bottom of the original article :
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It’s worth noting that 97 percent of scientists contacted did not feel they had taken a position endorsing the primacy of anthropogenic climate change in their respective papers”
So the authors of the climate articles did not agree with the surveyed assessments.
Even if the climate is changing (and it always is), and even if humans are a contributing factor (and we likely are), this “consensus” doesn’t mean jack because none of them know how significant the human feedback term is (likely not so much) or the practical, on-the-ground effect of the climate change (likely not anywhere near as devastating as the alarmists would have you believe).
A candidate for a Ph.D. in chemistry joked (?) to me that "you want to research something that's cheap to do, so even if you don't have a big grant, you can make more money."
One of my favorite Milton Friedman quotes: "When you pay for research, you get research. When you pay for results, you get results."
Oh, Jumping Jesus on a freakin pogo stick.
I just remember about the “population time bomb”. We are all suppose to be dead now.
I remember “GLOBAL COOLING” and we are all suppose to be dead now.
Anyone remember this? http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5ndHwW8psR8
The only time you get a 97 percent endorsement is when you are talking about votes for Joe Stalin or Saddam Hussein.
Doesn't happen without coercion or group-think.
There is no consensus is science. There is theory and there is proof.
Climate change is a phenomenon that arrises from the diffusion of money molecules to regions of low ethical concentration and a high affinity for grants.
watch this testimony to congress. it’s good and disproves man caused global warming
Those are great quotes. Thanks.
One-third of the pollution over Los Angeles on any given day came from China or India.
Global Warming on Free Republic
97% of whores value chastity as a virtue....same percentage, just a different type of whore!
Ha! That’s a classic definition.
Did you mean to include a link?
1991 to 2011??
What’s the percentage in the past 5 years, I wonder?
96.375 Percent of statistics are made up.
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