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Climate Change: Mr. Obama, 97 percent of Experts is a Bogus Number
Fox ^ | May 28, 2015 | Richard Tol

Posted on 05/28/2015 5:40:40 PM PDT by lbryce

Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: Climate change is real, man-made and dangerous. President Obama tweeted that, and it has been repeated by countless others. It is tempting for a politician to claim that 97 percent of experts agree with you. But do they?

The 97 percent claim was taken from a study paper by Australian John Cook, Climate Communications Fellow for the Global change Institute at the University of Queensland, and his colleagues, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters in May, 2013. The paper says nothing about the would-be dangers of climate change and it counts the number of publications, rather than the number of scientists, in support of human-made climate change. Never let facts get in the way of a good story.

The paper is a treasure trove of how-not-to lessons for a graduate class on survey design and analysis: the sample was not representative, statistical tests were ignored, and the results were misinterpreted.

What was an incompetent piece of research has become a highly influential study, its many errors covered up.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 97; 97percent; 97scientists; bogus; climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming; hoax; hoaxes; libmyths; obamaclimatechange
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It really boggles the mind how, why these scientists will deny the reality of what is really going on and will all think, act alike, like lemmings. It's got to be some sort of brain function that has them all thinking the same way or all believing in the same political ideology for some purpose. the reason of which escapes me.

The way these scientists behave is not unlike the way girls living together in a dormitory begin menstruating at the same time. There must be some aspect of human behavior that has scientists from all walks of life, perspectives, points of view all think alike not because the unanimous scientific view is legitimately correct but is merely the result of an anomaly of the human psyche

1 posted on 05/28/2015 5:40:41 PM PDT by lbryce
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97%--95%, what's the difference?

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!


2 posted on 05/28/2015 5:43:01 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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Global Warming Skeptics Question Authority

Princeton Professor Denies Global Warming Theory

31,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Theory to be Named Monday

German scientists reject man-made global warming

Real Scientist Uncover Serious Flaw In Global Warming Data

Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]

‘Consensus’ On Man-Made Global Warming Collapses in 2008

Global Warming Petition Project
31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs

3 posted on 05/28/2015 5:44:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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To: lbryce

Community Organizer in Chief


4 posted on 05/28/2015 5:48:34 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: lbryce

As is every other number associated with Glowbull Warming.


5 posted on 05/28/2015 5:50:14 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: lbryce

77.3% of statistics are fake.


6 posted on 05/28/2015 5:51:27 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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Science....Ha....just go to the daily NASA sunspot pic and count...to monitor the decline in sunspot activity,


7 posted on 05/28/2015 5:52:49 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: lbryce

If they can’t answer simple questions from high school dropouts like myself, they’re in real trouble.

Just today on twitter one of the true believers informed me that the rising sea levels would wipe out the estuaries and take down the whole marine “web of life” with it.

I simply asked what happened to the web of life at the end of the last ice age when the seas actually did rise by hundreds of feet. He blocked me.


8 posted on 05/28/2015 5:52:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: TigersEye

Excellent resources.


9 posted on 05/28/2015 5:54:00 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Thank you. Tip of the iceberg. (pun intended)


10 posted on 05/28/2015 6:01:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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11 posted on 05/28/2015 6:14:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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Pathological liars lie...that is what they do. No one should be surprised.


12 posted on 05/28/2015 6:45:55 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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We could axe Obama how long he’s been a pathological liar - but he’d just lie to us about it...


13 posted on 05/28/2015 6:48:26 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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LOL...maybe a tad of waterboarding of this malignant fool would help???


14 posted on 05/28/2015 6:49:21 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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"Climate Change: Mr. Obama, 97 percent of Experts is a Bogus Number"

It would be more than 100% if he stopped talking to the expert that disagrees with him.
15 posted on 05/28/2015 7:12:52 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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The 97% number has been thoroughly busted. Anyone still trying to put that forward is flat-out lying to you, or is completely ignorant on the subject. Either way, they self-identify as someone not to listen to or trust.

bammy lies literally all the time and I don't think he gives a rodent's backside about global warming - just power and control.

16 posted on 05/28/2015 7:25:32 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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The sad thing is that many of the large energy companies have given into the fanatics and are now in the man-made climate change camp. I am sure that politicians have told them that any taxes imposed on energy consumption will be able to be passed through to consumers. Nothing but a money grab.


17 posted on 05/28/2015 7:51:05 PM PDT by burghguy
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Liberals always lie and are never called on it. Fact of Life.


18 posted on 05/28/2015 7:52:36 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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You may be giving this too much thought. It could simply be that climate scientists living on grants afforded them by proponents of climate change will tend to conclude what the proponents of climate change want them to conclude.


19 posted on 05/28/2015 8:36:19 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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‘Yeah. The guy who did the “study” took 12,ooo papers, threw out 8,000 that didn’t agree with him, and he counted scientists who believe that man has an effect, but it’s infinitestimally small, and not even considering. Total BS!


20 posted on 05/28/2015 9:53:14 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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