To: Olog-hai
I just heard a radio show about that today. The way they got that 97% figure is they sent out 10,000 surveys to scientists and climatologists and they got back 77. 75 of the 77 believed that man is the cause. 2 disagreed. Yes climate change is real. It is the cause that is still unknown.
17 posted on
05/16/2013 6:50:54 PM PDT by
albionin
To: albionin
"The way they got that 97% figure is they sent out 10,000 surveys to scientists and climatologists and they got back 77. 75 of the 77 believed that man is the cause. 2 disagreed."It's actually much worse than that. They got back a lot more than 77. They just threw out all the ones they didn't like.
Here's the actual story on the "survey": http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/18/what-else-did-the-97-of-scientists-say/
69 posted on
05/17/2013 4:22:14 AM PDT by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: albionin
The way they got that 97% figure is they sent out 10,000 surveys to scientists and climatologists and they got back 77. 75 of the 77 believed that man is the cause. 2 disagreed. True, but that was old (several years ago). This new "survey" is even worse. It was done by a cartoonist (John Cook) who is a climate activist in Australia. He's not scientific in the least, nor is he unbiased.
74 posted on
05/17/2013 6:31:46 AM PDT by
palmer
(Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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