An overwhelming 100 percent of the people I polled think hussein is an illegal President and should be impeached, then thrown in prison for life. Guess statistics depend on the demographics of who you ask and how you ask eh?
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...
Were these the same groups responsible for cherry-picking data, altering data, colluding on results before research, etc. etc.??? You know, that whole email scandal that erupted and basically removed any shred of credibility from the AGW crowd?
...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...
This in spite of a complete lack of correlation between C02 and average temperature. We've had hot and cold periods before (ie. ice ages and the gaps between). Oh, then there's that little problem of the last 12 years of data (when unaltered) that show no warming, in fact a slight cooling. Hmm, C02 levels haven't dropped... Oh, and then there's the problem of human C02 emissions being less than 3% of C02 put in the atmosphere yearly. Oops, even if we cut our emissions 100%, stopped putting any C02 in the atmosphere, we'd be a blip...
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.
Ah yes, "evidence" taken from other people's "evidence" that has been shown to be at the height of the very un-scientific manipulation of the data to "back" the results intended. Gee, if I poll a thousand sci-fi authors I can claim "evidence" that extraterrestrial life exists.
"That suggests both a consensus, and an overwhelming one," adds Todd.
Like the consensus that used to exist that the world was flat and the center of the universe?
"The public perception of a scientific consensus on [anthropogenic global warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy,"
Ah, a rare moment of truth leaked through... They know they merely need to generate the "perception" of a scientific consensus. Never mind fact. They can't push through their controlling policies and power grabs unless and until there is a "perception" they are needed. Don't let facts get in the way.
That's not a problem. The natural release and uptake of CO2 is more or less in balance, mostly due to vegetation growing and dying each season in the northern hemisphere. The manmade CO2 is a small fraction of that natural cycle as you point out, but man's is all in one direction. We don't put out CO2 in the fall and suck it back in the spring. Therefore all (100%) of the observed rise is manmade. It would be twice as high as we observe, but nature is absorbing a lot of the manmade CO2 (mostly in the oceans).