How climate change deniers got it right — but very wrong (Now at 99.9% "consensus")

msnbc ^ | June 16, 2015 | Tony Dokoupil

[PROCON]

It turns out the climate change deniers were right: There isn’t 97% agreement among climate scientists. The real figure? It’s not lower, but actually higher.

[Impala64ssa]

And just who signs the paychecks the “99.9%-ers” receive? Gov’t grants, $$$ funneled to them through the WWF, Sierra Club, etc? Follow the money. Their assertions the AGW is real is as meaningful as Bill Gates issuing a strong buy recommendation on Microsoft.

[central_va]

Man caused climate change = Salem witch hunt

[Impala64ssa]

There was a time also there was 100% agreement among scientists that the earth was the center of the universe.
And that's hardly the only time "settled science" got it wrong. When the first railroads were built the scientists of the day warned of the dangers of rail travel, claiming the human body cannot withstand sustained speeds over 30MPH. I'm sure Jeff Gordon and Chuck Yeager would have a good laugh over that one. When we visited the Baseball Hall of Fame, we saw an excellent exhibit on the history of the old Negro Leagues. One artifact I remember was an excerpt from a medical journal published at the end of WWII that argued against integrating the major leagues because Blacks were athletically INFERIOR to Whites. This is what modern science told us a relatively short 70 yrs ago. Obviously, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Roy Campenella, Elston Howard, Ernie Banks, etc. never received that memo.

[fireman15]

“There isn’t any evidence against global warming and there isn’t any alternative theory,” he said. “We’ve been looking for negative feedbacks and we’ve never found one that amounts to anything.”

I guess that all three major data sets based on satellite data which all show no rising worldwide temperatures for nearly 20 years do not count as “evidence against global warming”. And of course there is the U.S. Climate Reference Network, (USCRN) which was designed to be the most accurate network of ground based weather recording stations in the United States which shows we are now ten years into a slight cooling trend... that must not be “evidence” either.

MSNBC has reached new heights of journalistic malfeasance. Of course they have James L. Powell, director of the National Physical Sciences Consortium to blame. And just what is the National Physical Sciences Consortium? It is a “nonprofit” whose stated purpose is to “emphasizes the recruitment of women and underrepresented minorities.” So despite having a name that sounds like it is a scientific organization it is just another leftist group dedicated to funneling mostly government funds to minorities. That is a huge surprise isn’t it.

[Amagi]

Were they 99.9% sure New York would be underwater last week?

Maybe they meant New York the City mortgages would be underwater.

[Homer1]

He also tried a different approach than the earlier studies. Rather than search for explicit acceptance of anthropomorphic global warming, Powell searched for explicit rejection. All the papers in the middle, he figured, weren’t neutral on the subject — they were settled on it.

what an idiot

[Raycpa]

This is an amazing religion. If you polled all the catholic clergy in the world you would not get 97% agreeing that Jesus rose from the dead, you would get a much lower number. With the help of the pope we finally have a religion we can all agree on. Wonderful.

[Raycpa]

and that the role of any female should be limited to bearing children and keeping house

and you were doing so well,

[TexasCajun]

I thought I heard The Pope declared Global Warming Deniers can’t get into Heaven?

[Louis Foxwell]

I find it amazing that 1% of global warming funded lab techs do not accept the basic premise of global warming. What side of the bread do they think their toast is buttered on?

[Sgt_Schultze]

The more “studies” that are produced, the more authors are identified as climate alchemists. When their folly is finally laid bare, there will be a ton of alchemy-science people to fire and hundreds of so-called journalists to laugh at.

[Pollster1]

I’m 99.9% confident in the NTY prediction that New York City will be under water forever, starting this year, due to global warming. What kind of denier could doubt such a near certain forecast?

[NOVACPA]

Consensus is the first refuge of a scoundrel.