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The 97% hoax is from the Doran & Zimmerman “study” in 2008.

10,257 scientist were sent a online survey with 2 questions.

Only 3,146 responded.

All responses were anonymous and they were also able to identify the area of expertise.

Nearly 20% said main had NO significant influence on global temperatures.

More “Climate math” needed....

They reduced the original list of over 10,000 down to 79 self described “Climate scientist”. 77 of the 79 said the earth was warming, hence the 97%.

Even I will admit that there is probably some small insignificant impact on global temperatures, but the models greatly overstate that impact as we have seen these past 18 years.

IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS BRING DATA!

Thank you for that summary. It sounds about right, how they would cherry-pick an already-biased population, and then use it for their needs. It's downright evil.

I've said this before, the whole climate-change story is the new "Cold War" for the Left. If they can convince enough people that this is a threat, they will control every aspect of our lives, Constitution be damned. The threat will be never-ending, and any temperature data will be hung over our heads every time a new bill comes up for a vote.

Steyn, sitting in for Limbaugh, said that looking at the demographics of the 79 “scientists” that were included in the poll, more were from California than were from Europe, Asia and Africa, combined. Who knew there were so few “scientists” in Europe, Asia and Africa?

It seems people forget that Greenland was once totally covered with grass and vegetation. So it was "warm" before, then the little ice age, then now we are back to where we were before the little ice age.

Also interesting is the abstract below (from link from the article) from the report citing the 97%. Note that it's 97% of those expressing an opinion on AGW.

"We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. 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. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus."