““97 percent of climate scientists have confirmed that climate change is happening and that human activity is responsible.””
It depends on how you ask the questions. Does man have some effect on warming? Perhaps. 0.04% of CO2 is produced by man. 4 one hundredths of 1%. That’s not enough to distinguish it from the natural “noise” in the stats. That 97% needs to be further asked weather man’s contribution to CO2 is in any way significant, and, if so, how significant?
“since Michael Mann’s “hide the decline” skullduggery was exposed.”
Good point! I’d bet a lot of them have jumped ship since finding out they were lied to. Add in all the other things like missing thermometer stations, poorly-placed stations, the inability to get the original data from the liars, and so on, and so on!
He’s lying in the phraseology.
Let’s, for the sake of argument, give him the 97% figure. But that’s 97% of respondents, the vast majority of whom have no degree in climatology.
So, when he says “climate scientists”, that’s a lie on its face.
Also, can’t remember the exact percentage, but something like 90% of the “research” is based on Mann’s regurgitated data which we know was manipulated. So, at the time that 97 percent were agreeing, they were looking at what we now know to be crap data/models.
For me, you can throw all that aside. What proves it’s a scam to me is that “weather events” keep happening that they did NOT predict. Then they scramble to explain it by force-fitting it to their lies. If the models are so freakin’ perfect, why didn’t they know it BEFORE the event?
Bottom line is, you don NOT have to be scientist to know BS when you smell it.