Posted on 01/13/2014 1:40:30 PM PST by llevrok
The next time you hear someone dispute that human activity is destabilizing our climate, remember this pie chart.
It represents geochemist James Lawrence Powell's review of 2,258 peer-reviewed scientific articles about climate change, written by 9,136 authors, published between Nov. 12, 2012 and December 31, 2013. Of all those hundreds of papers and thousands of researchers, Powell found one article, authored by a single scientist, that attributed climate change to something other than human actions: "The Role of Solar Activity in Global Warming," by S.V. Avakyan, appearing in the Herald of the Russian Academy of Science, Vol. 83, No. 3.
Powell, a past president of Oberlin, Franklin and Marshall, and Reed colleges, invites anyone to reproduce his survey of the science:
Anyone can repeat as much of the new study as they wish--all of it if they like. Download an Excel database of the 2,258 articles here. It includes the title, document number, and Web of Science accession number. Scan the titles to identify articles that might reject man-made global warming. Then use the DOI or WoS accession number to find and read the abstracts of those articles, and where necessary, the entire article.
...they do realize that scientists who were pushing Global Warming conspired to prevent doubters from being published right?
See: there is no problems in Cuba. If there were, the Cuban News would be reporting it right? :)
Great!
That’s 9136 Leftists who will happily euthanize themselves for the good of Gaia, right?
Right?
What step is “concensus” in the Scientific Method? We never learned that there was such a thing in science when I was in school.
“We will bury you in peer-reviewed articles!” Manbearpig stalks the seas!
The question is not whether humans affect climate, including average global temperature.
The question is whether anthropogenic effects are significant relative to other factors that influence global temperature.
And given that global temperature has been essentially static over the past 15 years (and the human activities that influence it have only increased), the answer suggested by physical reality is that humans have a negligible influence relative to non-human factors, no matter how blue a pie chart some superficial scanning of the literature yields.
It looks like the chart from the early 20th century of scientists that thought that the Milky Way was the whole universe.
The one sliver would have been Edwin Hubble. Glad that we don’t do things based on pie charts.
Why are so many of these so-called ‘brilliant’ scientists so hell-bent on pushing humanity back to the Stone Age by depriving us of the most efficient and effect forms of energy? Surely they’re not all ‘Inner Party’ members ...
It’s right before 4. Make a lot of money and 5. Rule the world.
Is it an accident that he has been president of three of the most liberal colleges in the Nation? Just wondering.
I’ll take Harrison Schmitt and his opinion on this latter-day phrenology, any day of the week.
And where was the grant money going?
The phrase “human activity is destabilizing the planet” is purposely vague and versatile.
Science should be based on the biggest loudest man bear pig, and not actual scientific stuff.
“We will bury you in peer-reviewed articles!
not before the EPA buries you in regulations.
Board of Director of Bonner, the Company that bought Popular Science from Time, Inc. in 2007:
http://www.bonnier.com/en/about-us/board-management/
I haven’t done a study of those scientists who dispute anthropgenic global warming, but I knw there are a large number of them.
And I am very suspicious of the motiviation of this magazine.
That’s Bonnier and we all know what a great job the Swedes have done managing their OWN “human” environment.
Democracy and Science have nothing in common.
Democracy is based on the emotion of opinion.
Science is based on Cause and Effect THAT CAN BE TESTED.
Democracy voting gave the World Hitler and Obama.
Science is still searching for a single cause and effect documentation for a change in the concentration of CO2 that has resulted in the change of air temperature.
The 9135 authors in the graphic had no cause and effect to base acceptance or rejection of Global Warming.
The 9135 voted by emotion.
If the 1 out of the 9136 voted Scientifically his/her answer would have been: “I don’t know, yet.”
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