“97% Of Scientists” – NOT

This is how “Climate Change” is pounded into the conventional wisdom.

Thousands of plausable, spurious, fatuous, pseudo-scientific claims which are NEVER challenged but are ALWAYS WRONG. and are NEVER CORRECTED. Exasperating, really exasperating.

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James Taylor, Contributor
5/30/2013 @ 8:00AM |6,139 views
Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring ’97-Percent Consensus’ Claims
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/30/global-warming-alarmists-caught-doctoring-97-percent-consensus-claims/

” …Either through idiocy, ignorance, or both, global warming alarmists and the liberal media have been reporting that the Cook study shows a 97 percent consensus that humans are causing a global warming crisis. However, that was clearly not the question surveyed. Investigative journalists at Popular Technology looked into precisely which papers were classified within Cook’s asserted 97 percent. The investigative journalists found Cook and his colleagues strikingly classified papers by such prominent, vigorous skeptics as Willie Soon, Craig Idso, Nicola Scafetta, Nir Shaviv, Nils-Axel Morner and Alan Carlin as supporting the 97-percent consensus. Cook and his colleagues, for example,… “

POSTSCRIPT – There is now a huge amount of debunking of this hapless, amateur, “97%”, sophistry – http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/05/28/more-woes-warmist-john-cooks-97-consensus-study-falsely-classifies-3-more-scientists-dr-morner-soon-carlin-plus-round-up-of-analyses-of-cooks-study/ – The President of the US of A has made a fool of himself.