Posted on 03/05/2017 7:07:39 AM PST by rktman
Weve heard it time and time again: 97 percent of scientists agree global warming is real and man-made.
Question one aspect of the global warming consensus and politicians and activists immediately whip out the figure. You disagree with 97 percent of scientists?
The 97 percent figure was often used by the Obama administration to bolster its case for phasing out fossil fuels, and President Barack Obama himself used the figure to undercut his critics. NASA even cites studies purporting to show near-unanimous agreement on the issue.
More recently, Newsweek included this figure in an article fretting about climate deniers in state legislatures trying to influence science curriculum. The author couldnt resist noting that 97% of scientists who actively study Earths climate say it is changing because of human activity.
Liberals use the figure to shut down debate around global warming. Afterall, how can you disagree with all those scientists, many of whom have spent their lives studying the climate?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
A great question to pose to global warming believers after debunking the 97 % consensus myth is “Ask yourself, if they are lying about this then what other lies are global warming proponents telling you?”
Consensus among scientists is meaningless.
Science overturns consensus. That’s its function.
Only 97% took Obama’s Bribe
Science is not a democracy or popularity contest where the idea with the most followers wins. In fact, History is full of examples where the “general consensus” was wrong, and shattered by lone rebels who didn’t agree.
In the late 1800s, the “general consensus” was that heavier-than-air craft could never fly, and was said to be a “physical impossibility” by the world’s greatest scientist, Lord Kelvin. Two bicycle-makers from Ohio made the world’s scientists look like fools.
Lots of other examples where dissenters broke the existing “consensus” and showed the truth. Science needs to always be questioned, if the idea is solid, it will withstand any rigid questioning.
Similarly, concepts that NEED to be protected from rigid questioning are probably suspect.
The 97% claim is a perfect example of the left repeating a lie until it is commonly accepted. The study and figure was debunked the same day it was released and proven to have no basis by virtually everyone who has examined it. Yet the left continues to stick with it.
Do you have a link ?
Wayack machine will find them. If he posted them after the server began service.
Indeed. Like I said, the Heliocentric view is also inadequate. :-)
I look at these studies and laugh. Want to change the result? Trump could say wine 97% of climate scientists believe this and there a a consensus, then there is no longer a need to fund efforts. Money can be used to find the financial part of fixing this, where there is no government intervention.
Once the left starts complaining about more science is needed, the game is over.
Global Hot Air
We are entering a mini ice age
LOL! We are at my house. Five new inches of snow this morning. Mt. Rose (9100 at the summit) ski area 670 cumulative for the season so far crushing previous records and still snowing up there. Yeah, bring it on. Drought buster.
Bm
Here at the New Jersey shore we were up to 70 a few days back, and hit 12 this morning. It’s now up to a lovely, sunny 31 and is supposed to be in the 60s by Wednesday. The phenomenon is called “weather”.
[[I sincerely doubt that figure.]]
And well you should- it is not 97% of all scientists- it was only 97% of a small group of scientists questioned, many of whom didn’t answer- and their non answers were thrown out in order to come up with their ridiculous 97% figure-
Nothing about ‘man-caused climate change’ is genuine or truthful- NASA was just caught making up numbers and throwing out evidence to support their idiotic claims
But agreeing with the required consensus keeps the grant money coming, so...
Remove that incentive and truth will out.
97% of Bigfoot researchers say there’s a consensus that Bigfoot exist. Must be true!
“just pure bs”
Yep.
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