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!
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.
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.
“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!
Well, people believe in evolution. I want to know the evolutionary history of flowers.
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.
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.
No more reliable than online polls.
Do they ever get curious as to why those who believe in man made global warming run from public debate?
This fact renders the above "study" useless.
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!
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.
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 wonder if you limit the list to 2008-2013 if that percentage changes. ;-)
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.
There was a time when 97% thought the sun revolved around the earth...
If you recall, in the story about Chicken Little, most of the crowd agreed with Chicken Little that the "sky is falling."
Without more detail on the nature of the "studies" we may have a Chicken Little kind of report.
What’s the compensation payout when 97% of weather prophets predict rain this week and it doesn’t rain?
Where is the accountability?