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Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility: Only 1 of 9,136 Recent Peer-Reviewed Authors Rej
desmogblog ^ | 2014/01/08/ | This is a guest post by James Lawrence Powell

Posted on 02/03/2015 7:20:44 AM PST by dennisw

I have brought my previous study (see here and here) up-to-date by reviewing peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals over the period from Nov. 12, 2012 through December 31, 2013. I found 2,258 articles, written by a total of 9,136 authors. (Download the chart above here.) Only one article, by a single author in the Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, rejected man-made global warming. I discuss that article here.

My previous study, of the peer-reviewed literature from 1991 through Nov. 12, 2012, found 13,950 articles on “global warming” or “global climate change.” Of those, I judged that only 24 explicitly rejected the theory of man-made global warming. The methodology and details for the original and the new study are described here.

Anyone can repeat as much of the new study as they wish–all of it if they like. Download an Excel database of the 2,258 articles here. It includes the title, document number, and Web of Science accession number. Scan the titles to identify articles that might reject man-made global warming. Then use the DOI or WoS accession number to find and read the abstracts of those articles, and where necessary, the entire article. If you find any candidates that I missed, please email me here.

The scientific literature since 1991 contains a mountain of evidence confirming man-made global warming as true and no convincing evidence that it is false. Global warming denial is a house of cards.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
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To: Regal

What is the “correct” temperature for Planet Earth?

What period typified the “ideal” climate?

The climate has changed quite dramatically throughout history (going down and up without the help of man).


61 posted on 02/03/2015 8:57:18 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: ThomasMore

Exactly. If you think global warming is bad, wait till we get global cooling. Last time was a beotch.


62 posted on 02/03/2015 8:58:31 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: cuban leaf

Selling souls does tend to garner more loyal customers than selling oil....


63 posted on 02/03/2015 8:59:14 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Um, maybe that was yesterday’s warming du jour. Today’s is a surface effect on a number of temporarily stagnant ocean areas. Got to keep up with the shell game here, pal...


64 posted on 02/03/2015 9:00:41 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Even more:

Is there a range of conditions that are ideal for man’s survival and if there is such a state, is there a range of conditions in which man cannot exist?

Is mere existence enough?

What caused prehistoric fluxes in temperatures?


65 posted on 02/03/2015 9:02:06 AM PST by Regal
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To: cuban leaf

66 posted on 02/03/2015 9:02:22 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: dennisw

And how many of those so-called scientists have or anticipate a government grant?


67 posted on 02/03/2015 9:02:52 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: a fool in paradise

The folks crowing about “Darwin” managing to keep earth not just alive but smelling like a rose through major volcanic belchings and meteorite hits and dramatic ice ages... are now getting very cold feet. Or is it warm feet.


68 posted on 02/03/2015 9:03:57 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Regal

Are today’s temperatures the ideal numbers?

Or the base recordings of the 1800s?

Or the medieval warming period?

What is the ‘right’ number?


69 posted on 02/03/2015 9:06:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Regal
What caused prehistoric fluxes in temperatures?

Scientologists would tell you it was aliens dumping the souls of aliens into volcanoes.

70 posted on 02/03/2015 9:07:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Is the number base-10. Is the number a prime number? Is it divisible by 11?


71 posted on 02/03/2015 9:09:30 AM PST by Regal
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Today, few deny the cooling.

As to the ocean, anything that disproportionately warms ocean waters causes an increase in precipitation, whose predictable result is land mass cooling.
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72 posted on 02/03/2015 9:09:33 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: a fool in paradise

Who wrote the Book of Love?

Who shot Liberty Valance?

Why do fools fall in love?


73 posted on 02/03/2015 9:10:46 AM PST by Regal
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To: Regal; a fool in paradise

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>> “Is the number base-10. Is the number a prime number? Is it divisible by 11?” <<

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Is anything you post here ever relevant?

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74 posted on 02/03/2015 9:11:25 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Some places have cooled, some have warmed, the vertical profile of same has changed (earth isn’t just a 2 dimensional entity) and different substances are involved with different specific heats.

It is mathematically absurd to believe one can predict from the empirical information we have what temperature trends are going to be. Too many variables, too few equations.


75 posted on 02/03/2015 9:12:56 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: editor-surveyor

One cannot judge relevance without a baseline of relevance.

Is relevance relative?


76 posted on 02/03/2015 9:14:31 AM PST by Regal
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To: Regal

Well, God wrote the Book of Love


77 posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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>> “It is mathematically absurd to believe one can predict from the empirical information we have what temperature trends are going to be. Too many variables, too few equations.” <<

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Agree in general.

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78 posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:06 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Exactly!

The calculations for the moon mission were basically no different than those done by Issac Newton and others.

As to Climate Models - After learning to Program “Hello World” the next thing most programmers learn is “GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out!”

As for value of “Peer Reviewed Climate Science”, the Hadley CRU emails destroyed their credibility.


79 posted on 02/03/2015 9:15:54 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: dennisw

One of my old girlfriends is a big climate change professor at a major university

I’m not surprised

She’s an heiress


80 posted on 02/03/2015 9:16:17 AM PST by wardaddy (glenn beck is a nauseous politically correct conservative on LSD)
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