“97 percent of the scientests agree” is an intentional misquote by the alarmists pulled from the Cook study of the internal Climategate emails that confirmed the fraud of Climategate. Cook found that of the reviewed professional literature, which U.of East Anglia conspirators admittedly controlled, there was 97 percent of a third agreement in CO2 contributing to “Global Warming”. His report actually confirmed the conspiracy. “97 percent of a third” is still less than a third but its only a third among the papers that were allowed to be published. The top huricane expert in USA went to his grave complaining that he couldn’t get published because of these UAE people.
“97 percent of the scientests agree”
Actually...there’s multiple sources. Each more hilarious than the last.
This includes a ‘study’ where thousands of members of a scientific organization were sent a list of questions, including the vague questions about whether CO2 causes warming, whether it had warmed since the 1800s, and whether humans had any effect on climate.
These were wittled down to a couple of hundred responses, and among that small group got a 97% on the CO2 causing warming question (why so low?). They actually got more complaints back that the questions were broken than they did agreement within this small group - the original mailing list excluding geologists and meteorologists and many other relevant disciplines.
Another 97%er is a study by Naiomi Oreskes, where she did an internet search and her group evaluated papers as to whether they supported man-made global warming or not. Famously, the would classify both a study which purported to find evidence of some phenomenon which supported the author’s interpretation of global warming theory - and the paper that disproved the previously referenced paper - as well as papers written by skeptics, or didn’t address the issue but used the keywords, all as supporting AGW theory.
Then there’s the Lewandowsky study.