This small group of scientists has been the most influential in driving world wide alarm over global warming
Climate researcher David Legates demolished Cook's study after its publication. Unfortunately, though, Legates revelatory findings, 0.3 percent consensus, not 97 percent, was not so widely circulated. (3)
Although the 97 percent figure, based on discredited studies, is exaggerated, in this new present era of global warming, it is worth revisiting the much touted 97 percent consensus lie. Science is not done by consensus, it isn't a vote. Consensus is a political tool, it has no place in science.
Here are data showing 0.3% consensus, not 97.1%:
- 11, 944 abstracts (1991-2011) reviewed 100%
- 7,930 were arbitrarily excluded for expressing no opinion 66.4%
- 3,896 were marked as agreeing we cause some warming 32.6%
- 64 were marked as stating we caused most of the warming 0.5%
- 41 actually stated we caused most warming since 1950 0.3%
- 0 were marked as endorsing man made catastrophe 9.9%
You read that right, the much vaunted 97 percent consensus turns out to be a mere 0.3 percent consensus. (3)
In 2009, 1,079 emails between climate scientists of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in the United Kingdom and others working with them were released by a whistle blower in an incident that came to be known as Climategate. (1)
This small group of scientists has been the most influential in driving world wide alarm over global warming.