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Study: 97% Agreement on Man made Global Warming (Counting scientific papers)
wunderground.com ^ | May 16 2013 | Angela Fritz

Posted on 05/16/2013 6:38:08 AM PDT by listenhillary

The scientific agreement that climate change is happening, and that it's caused by human activity, is significant and growing, according to a new study published Thursday.

The research, the most comprehensive analysis of climate research to date, finds that 97.1% of the studies published between 1991 to 2011 that expressed a position on man made climate change agreed that it was happening, and that it was due to human activity.

The study looked at peer reviewed research that mentioned climate change or global warming. Peer review is the way that scientific journals approve research papers that are submitted. In peer review, group of scientists that weren't involved in the study, but who are experts in the field, look at the research being submitted and have approved that it meets scientific process standards, and the standards of that journal.

In 2011, 521 of those peer reviewed papers agreed that climate change is real, and that human activity is the cause. Nine papers in 2011 disagreed.

John Cook, founder of skepticalscience.com and the lead author on the study, said the motivation for the analysis was the importance of scientific consensus in shaping public opinion, and therefore policy. "When people understand that climate scientists agree on human-caused global warming, they're more likely to support climate policy," Cook said. "But when the public are asked how many climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming, the average answer is around 50%."

This "consensus gap" is what Cook and the research team is trying to close. "Raising awareness of the scientific consensus is a key step towards meaningful climate action," Cook said.

(Excerpt) Read more at wunderground.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academicbias; climatechangefraud; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; marxism; thoughtcrime
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Wunderground is a pretty good weather site that I use a lot. I'm getting tired of their climate change propaganda.
1 posted on 05/16/2013 6:38:08 AM PDT by listenhillary
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To: listenhillary
It's absolutely true that CO2 causes global warming. All the scientific papers say so.

Earth's temperatures have been flat for 16 years while CO2 production is rising quickly.

It's a good thing there is no scientific evidence contrary to their hypothesis!

2 posted on 05/16/2013 6:40:22 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (WHO IS ON THE ENEMIES LIST?)
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97.1% are in line to continue receiving FedGov funding grants to fall in lock-step with that “opinion”.

97.1% are on target to get a deep IRS audit, EPA site re-certification survey if the move away from that opinion.


3 posted on 05/16/2013 6:41:45 AM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: listenhillary

I like the Weather Underground site for weather as well, but I agree that their AGW garbage has got to stop.

They had a blog posting about ice floes in parts of northern Canada that are literally creeping along and taking houses off their foundations, but then in the same article they talk about how global climate change is destroying the ice caps.

I wish mother nature would just go full-tilt on us and show them that man has absolutely NOTHING to do with global climate change. The giant flaming ball of fissioning plasma about 1 AU away from us, on the other hand, might.


4 posted on 05/16/2013 6:42:02 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: listenhillary

“In 2011, 521 of those peer reviewed papers agreed that climate change is real, and that human activity is the cause. Nine papers in 2011 disagreed.”

This isn’t true.

If you take out those papers compiled and funded by those with vested financial interests in all things ‘green’ and those that merely state human activity has a role, but either as an undetermined or minimal factor, you have no consensus at all.

Hey, even I agree with the latter point, every time I pass wind I’m affecting the environment, but to my knowledge I am not damaging the o zone layer in any meaningful way!


5 posted on 05/16/2013 6:42:04 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: listenhillary

Well, people believe in evolution. I want to know the evolutionary history of flowers.


6 posted on 05/16/2013 6:42:23 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: listenhillary

Climate Change??? Sure Mother Nature changes from time to time, always has.

Man made ? Bull defecation.

Keep feeding this crap and some will eat it . And those feeding it will get rich like Al Gore.


7 posted on 05/16/2013 6:43:40 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: listenhillary
If seriously insane Algore had won in 2000, nobody would be talking about global warming today.
8 posted on 05/16/2013 6:44:07 AM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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They can claim all the “consensus” they want.

The fact is that that folks going into that trade are not the top of the physics barrel.

Heck, they’re barely in the barrel at all.

And that......’s the truuuuuuuth.

This is verifiable in many ways:

faulty data analysis indicating social science grade
education

inability of models to predict - in fact, the “models” only duplicate past events by forcing numerous “adustments” in certain driving value weighting

inability to show why the warming takes place before the CO2 values rise.

the fact that extinction values for pre-20th century and present CO2 values are still such that the differing CO2 levels simply cannot make much diff at all.

inability to allow for the fact that the sun’s output makes a great deal more diff than they let on.

Oh, and what about that warming on Mars? Oh, it’s the “solar wind” blowing our CO2 to Mars. Never mind.


9 posted on 05/16/2013 6:45:12 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: listenhillary

No more reliable than online polls.


10 posted on 05/16/2013 6:45:32 AM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 12 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: listenhillary
Has it ever occurred to those who write 97% of scientific papers that having an honest, open public discussion on their beliefs would be a good idea?

Do they ever get curious as to why those who believe in man made global warming run from public debate?

11 posted on 05/16/2013 6:46:31 AM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: listenhillary
One must bear in mind, however, that as evidenced by the release of the "Climategate" e-mails, authors of papers which disagreed with the orthodoxy of Anthropomorphic Climate Change were unable to get their papers published.

This fact renders the above "study" useless.

12 posted on 05/16/2013 6:46:44 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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What an ego boost this will be when it’s proven in a decade or two that hundreds of scientists were wrong while MNDude was right!


13 posted on 05/16/2013 6:48:54 AM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: listenhillary

And a poll taken in 1313 would have shown that 98% of scientists believed that the earth was flat, and that if you fell over the edge, the sea serpents would eat you.

In 1847, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was ridiculed mercilessly for positing his belief that doctors were spreading germs by not washing their hands as they treated patients.

When almost 100% of scientists believe something, science becomes religion.


14 posted on 05/16/2013 6:53:01 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: listenhillary
I wonder Anthony, at WUWT, sez about this?
15 posted on 05/16/2013 6:56:23 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: listenhillary

The research, the most comprehensive analysis of climate research to date, finds that 97.1% of the studies published between 1991 to 2011 that expressed a position on man made climate change agreed that it was happening, and that it was due to human activity.


I’m gonna guess that includes Mann’s stuff.

I wonder if you limit the list to 2008-2013 if that percentage changes. ;-)


16 posted on 05/16/2013 6:59:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: USCG SimTech
IIRC, a few years ago, the woman in charge of "Nature" banned the acceptance of papers challenged anything about AGW.

Likewise, the woman in charge of MIT had a similar bent in falling in lock-step.

17 posted on 05/16/2013 7:01:16 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: listenhillary
From President Eisenhower's farewell address:

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.


18 posted on 05/16/2013 7:02:07 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: USCG SimTech

Exactly.

Government funds research telling us we need more government.

Researchers do research telling us we need more research.

A match made in heaven.


19 posted on 05/16/2013 7:20:05 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: listenhillary
From their findings of 11 944 climate abstracts:

We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming.

So they took the 33.6% that expressed an opinion, 32.6% endorsing, and came up with:

Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

Lies, damn lies and statistics...
20 posted on 05/16/2013 7:22:52 AM PDT by runfree
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