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About that consensus on global warming: 9136 agree, 1 disagrees.
Scientific American ^ | 01/10/2014 | By Ashutosh Jogalekar |

Posted on 01/12/2014 6:30:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The consensus about global warming among scientists (Image: James Powell)

I just want to highlight this illuminating infographic by James Powell in which, based on more than 2000 peer-reviewed publications, he counts the number of authors from November, 2012 to December, 2013 who explicitly deny global warming (that is, who propose a fundamentally different reason for temperature rise than anthropogenic CO2). The number is exactly one. In addition Powell also has helpful links to the abstracts and main text bodies of the relevant papers.

It’s worth noting how many authors agree with the basic fact of global warming – more than nine thousand. And that’s just in a single year. Now I understand as well as anyone else that consensus does not imply truth but I find it odd how there aren’t even a handful of scientists who deny global warming presumably because the global warming mafia threatens to throttle them if they do. It’s not like we are seeing a 70-30% split, or even a 90-10% split. No, the split is more like 99.99-0.01%.

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To: SeekAndFind

Scientific American was, at one time, both scientific and American.

No longer.


41 posted on 01/12/2014 8:09:35 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: ClearCase_guy

More like when Stalin was elected.


42 posted on 01/12/2014 8:27:54 PM PST by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear Climate Change scientists:

LAST WEEK THE SUN, the source of all energy on earth: either on the ground, under the ground in pools or rock strata, or above the ground as wind, solar, thermal, waves, batteries, or whatever;

Reversed it’s magnetic poles, so that the Sun’s north pole, became it’s South pole, fully changing its proton emissions.

Please Mr. Scientist, explain the impact of that change to the Sun, as it relates to the next few centuries of life on the Earth!

I’m, waiting!


43 posted on 01/12/2014 8:29:28 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
There is no money in denying globull warming.

And there could be serious career danger, especially when publications like Scientific American come out explicitly against those who disagree with the zeitgeist. They're clearly not interested in REAL science, just 'popular' science.

44 posted on 01/12/2014 8:37:24 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Noob1999
Actually, the sun reverses poles every 11 years or so. We're supposed to get enhanced radio propogation at the sunspot peak. Ham radio has been for crap this cycle, compared to previous cycles.

/johnny

45 posted on 01/12/2014 8:48:28 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

..............Actually, the sun reverses poles every 11 years or so..........

Yes, I totally understand the 11 year cycle.

Do our esteemed climate change experts, like Algore, also understand that the Sun is ever changing, and what possible impact could that be for all the planets within our solar system???


46 posted on 01/12/2014 9:23:35 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: JRandomFreeper

..............Actually, the sun reverses poles every 11 years or so..........

Yes, I totally understand the 11 year cycle.

Do our esteemed climate change experts, like Algore, also understand that the Sun is ever changing, and what possible impact could that be for all the planets within our solar system???


47 posted on 01/12/2014 9:23:49 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: SeekAndFind
If you write a serious scientific paper disputing the human cause of global warming, your paper will not be published.

We know this from Mann's leaked emails. There is a coordinated effort to suppress dissent. You agree with them or your career is over.

And the reason they do this is so they can write articles like this, trumpeting "consensus."

48 posted on 01/12/2014 9:26:50 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah. And 100% of the Politburo voted for Stalin.


49 posted on 01/12/2014 9:33:03 PM PST by EternalVigilance ('The simplification of anything is always sensational.' -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope to God that those that fear Global Warming are right. If you look at Geologic History, life and man thrived during the inter glacial periods. The Inter glacial periods have lasted from 10 to 20 thousands years with glacial periods of 100 thousand years or more. The normal state of the earth is glaciation and not our present and probably short lived state of inter glaciation.

CO2 did not start or end the last ice age. Orbital mechanics and the magnetosphere of the sun is the cause of ice ages and the brief periods between in which life flourishes.

“Pray for global warming,” as the alternative is a vast lose of life and diversity of living things on our planet.


50 posted on 01/12/2014 10:42:13 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

51 posted on 01/12/2014 11:25:38 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course global warming could be caused by man. The question is how much, does it matter, and may cooling trends counteract any warming.


52 posted on 01/12/2014 11:33:57 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is nothing to do with global warming. It is all about fat grant money and cushy academic sinecures for talentless faux intellectuals. They would be doing stoop labor without this issue


53 posted on 01/13/2014 2:41:29 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Noob1999

9999 of we scientists do not agree with you therefore you are wrong and will be silenced, mocked, and professionally destroyed.


54 posted on 01/13/2014 3:03:58 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind

909 people drank cyanide tainted grape flavoraid in Guyana 35 years ago. 9 survived. Those 9 are wrong because they are in a 99% minority.

Liberal logic. EVERYTHING contradicting global warming is ignore and impugned. Russian scientists are not only challenging the global warming cult but presenting evidence for global cooling. The alarmists own reaction over the past 40 years show what a fraud the climate change profit industry remains. Global cooling, global warming, climate change. They have been wrong time after time.


55 posted on 01/13/2014 3:11:17 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind
It’s worth noting how many authors agree with the basic fact of global warming – more than nine thousand. And that’s just in a single year.

The fact is that the earth, Mars, Venus, and other planets experienced global warming for a number of years. The global warming ended 18 years ago.

Accepting global warming is not the same as believing that it was caused by mankind.

The dominant factor in climate change is the Sun.

This half cooked analysis leaves out the context, duration, and causal factors. It is another propaganda piece.

56 posted on 01/13/2014 3:30:30 AM PST by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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To: SeekAndFind

The methodology is to search for articles on climate change and then count as agreement all article other that don’t disprove AGW, whether or not that is their design. For example:

A knowledge-aid approach for designing high-performance buildings

This article proves or disproves nothing about AGW. It’s counted as part of the consensus because it has nothing to do with AGW.


57 posted on 01/13/2014 4:48:28 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: chrisser; SeekAndFind
Climate Skeptics Reveal ‘Horror Stories’ of Scientific Suppression
58 posted on 01/13/2014 5:33:15 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: cpdiii
Every indication is that CO2 levels track global temperatures, and not vice-versa.

The colder the ocean gets, the more CO2 it traps. The warmer it gets, the more CO2 it expels.

Atmospheric CO2 has been much higher than today coincident with much lower global temperatures.


59 posted on 01/13/2014 5:34:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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