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Scientists: Climate change is real
Yahoo ^ | 5/16/13 | Chris Gayomali | The Week

Posted on 05/16/2013 6:37:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

An overwhelming 97 percent of climatologists endorse the idea of human-caused global warming.

As if the backing of NASA, 18 independent American scientific societies, and an intergovernmental panel established under the United Nations weren't enough to quell the protests popping up in comment sections across the Internet, a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters confirms — once again — that climatologists almost unanimously believe that climate change is directly related to human-made carbon emissions.

Researchers pored over nearly 12,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers from 1991 to 2011. These papers, according to Michael Todd at Pacific Standard, represented the work of 29,083 authors and 1,980 journals. The conclusion could hardly be stronger: 97 percent of scientists agree that anthropogenic, or human-caused, global warming exists.

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"That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one," adds Todd.

"The public perception of a scientific consensus on [anthropogenic global warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy," conclude the study's authors. And yet, according to Pew Internet Research (PDF), 57 percent of Americans are unaware that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: Olog-hai

9 out of 10 dentist recommended dentine for their patients that chew gum.


21 posted on 05/16/2013 6:55:02 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Imagine. 97% of “climatologists” who live off of government grants are saying the manmade climate change is real and that the government should continue to support research to prove it.


22 posted on 05/16/2013 6:55:05 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Note this intriguing point at the bottom of the original article :

It’s worth noting that 97 percent of scientists contacted did not feel they had taken a position endorsing the primacy of anthropogenic climate change in their respective papers”

So the authors of the climate articles did not agree with the surveyed assessments.


23 posted on 05/16/2013 6:59:12 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: NormsRevenge

Even if the climate is changing (and it always is), and even if humans are a contributing factor (and we likely are), this “consensus” doesn’t mean jack because none of them know how significant the human feedback term is (likely not so much) or the practical, on-the-ground effect of the climate change (likely not anywhere near as devastating as the alarmists would have you believe).


24 posted on 05/16/2013 7:00:22 PM PDT by Flightdeck (IMPEACH and CONVICT)
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To: Rocky
Imagine. 97% of “climatologists” who live off of government grants are saying the manmade climate change is real and that the government should continue to support research to prove it.

A candidate for a Ph.D. in chemistry joked (?) to me that "you want to research something that's cheap to do, so even if you don't have a big grant, you can make more money."

One of my favorite Milton Friedman quotes: "When you pay for research, you get research. When you pay for results, you get results."

25 posted on 05/16/2013 7:01:19 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh, Jumping Jesus on a freakin pogo stick.

I just remember about the “population time bomb”. We are all suppose to be dead now.

I remember “GLOBAL COOLING” and we are all suppose to be dead now.


26 posted on 05/16/2013 7:04:17 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslymz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Anyone remember this? http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5ndHwW8psR8


27 posted on 05/16/2013 7:05:16 PM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: NormsRevenge
An overwhelming 97 percent of climatologists endorse the idea of human-caused global warming.

The only time you get a 97 percent endorsement is when you are talking about votes for Joe Stalin or Saddam Hussein.

Doesn't happen without coercion or group-think.

28 posted on 05/16/2013 7:11:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: NormsRevenge

There is no consensus is science. There is theory and there is proof.


29 posted on 05/16/2013 7:13:15 PM PDT by ilgipper (The lesson for the GOP is simple - don't let the opposition define you)
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To: Flightdeck

Climate change is a phenomenon that arrises from the diffusion of money molecules to regions of low ethical concentration and a high affinity for grants.


30 posted on 05/16/2013 7:13:59 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NormsRevenge
All the way up to the early 1600's, scientists AND religious groups KNEW that the Earth was the center of our solar system.

How did that work out for them?!?! Hell, Galileo was tried by the inquisition, found guilty of heresy and spent the end of his life under house arrest for claiming that the sun was the center of our solar system. That is kinda like the PC police of today, who go after anyone who doesn't agree with their prescribed notions!
31 posted on 05/16/2013 7:21:12 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: NormsRevenge

watch this testimony to congress. it’s good and disproves man caused global warming


32 posted on 05/16/2013 7:23:12 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Those are great quotes. Thanks.


33 posted on 05/16/2013 7:28:43 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
the clearest day you'll possibly see there [China] is far worse than the worst day you'll see in LA or London.

One-third of the pollution over Los Angeles on any given day came from China or India.

34 posted on 05/16/2013 7:28:45 PM PDT by DJtex
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35 posted on 05/16/2013 7:30:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: NormsRevenge

97% of whores value chastity as a virtue....same percentage, just a different type of whore!


36 posted on 05/16/2013 7:32:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (You don't have to be stupid to become a Progressive, but it does speed up the process.)
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To: SpaceBar

Ha! That’s a classic definition.


37 posted on 05/16/2013 7:32:46 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: jyro

Did you mean to include a link?


38 posted on 05/16/2013 7:34:52 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: NormsRevenge

1991 to 2011??

What’s the percentage in the past 5 years, I wonder?


39 posted on 05/16/2013 7:36:46 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them)
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To: NormsRevenge

96.375 Percent of statistics are made up.


40 posted on 05/16/2013 7:40:06 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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