Posted on 11/26/2015 2:12:29 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming, 97 percent of Americans don’t seem to care about the issue when stacked up against other concerns such as terrorism or the economy, according to a recent Fox News poll.
A November Fox News poll of more than 1,000 registered voters found that only 3 percent listed "climate change" as the most important issue facing the country today, down from 5 percent in August. Americans were much more worried about terrorism, the economy and immigration than global warming.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/25/the-new-consensus-97-of-americans-arent-worried-about-global-warming/#ixzz3saiGNtSs
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“While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming...”
73% of statistics are made up on the spot.
97%.......hheh, heh, heh....
Actually, 92.7% of all statistics are made up 52% of the time.
Isn’t it fun watching the whole progressive house come tumbling down?
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100% of global warming is bullshit.
If global warming was real, Algore would be flying coach and living in a modest home, in order to limit his carbon footprint and to set a good example.
Whenever they say Global Warming -— translate that to population manipulation and control.
LOL. I love it.
And the other 27% of their statistics are either dubious or misstated.
The headline does not actually match the poll. The poll said only 3% think it is the MOST important thing. It doesn’t show that 97% aren’t worried about it.
Yeah I get that.
But it seems newsworthy nonetheless. :D
It was the title.
“While 97 percent of scientists may agree mankind is driving global warming”
Except this is a bogus number long ago debunked.
2. How do we know the 97% agree?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/2/
To elaborate, how was that proven?
Almost no one who refers to the 97% has any idea, but the basic way it works is that a researcher reviews a lot of scholarly papers and classifies them by how many agree with a certain position.
Unfortunately, in the case of 97% of climate scientists agreeing that human beings are the main cause of warming, the researchers have engaged in egregious misconduct.
One of the main papers behind the 97 percent claim is authored by John Cook, who runs the popular website SkepticalScience.com, a virtual encyclopedia of arguments trying to defend predictions of catastrophic climate change from all challenges.
Here is Cook’s summary of his paper: “Cook et al. (2013) found that over 97 percent [of papers he surveyed] endorsed the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.â€
This is a fairly clear statement—97 percent of the papers surveyed endorsed the view that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause—main in common usage meaning more than 50 percent.
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But even a quick scan of the paper reveals that this is not the case. Cook is able to demonstrate only that a relative handful endorse “the view that the Earth is warming up and human emissions of greenhouse gases are the main cause.†Cook calls this “explicit endorsement with quantification†(quantification meaning 50 percent or more). The problem is, only a small percentage of the papers fall into this category; Cook does not say what percentage, but when the study was publicly challenged by economist David Friedman, one observer calculated that only 1.6 percent explicitly stated that man-made greenhouse gases caused at least 50 percent of global warming.
Where did most of the 97 percent come from, then? Cook had created a category called “explicit endorsement without quantificationâ€â€”that is, papers in which the author, by Cook’s admission, did not say whether 1 percent or 50 percent or 100 percent of the warming was caused by man. He had also created a category called “implicit endorsement,†for papers that imply (but don’t say) that there is some man-made global warming and don’t quantify it. In other words, he created two categories that he labeled as endorsing a view that they most certainly didn’t.
The 97 percent claim is a deliberate misrepresentation designed to intimidate the public—and numerous scientists whose papers were classified by Cook protested:
“Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral.â€
—Dr. Richard Tol
“That is not an accurate representation of my paper . . .â€
I’d say 100% of Americans don’t lied being lied to.
Well, according to a pie chart I saw once in USA Today, it seems that 2/3rds of us make up 75% of the population!
Ding ding, we have a winner.
When Obama declares that global warming is the greatest threat, he is mocking us.
100% of Obozo voters love being lied to.
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