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CLIMATE SCIENTIST "CONSENSUS" CLAIMS ARE A HOAX |
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December 30, 2010: "75 climate scientists think humans contribute to global warming", by Lawrence Solomon, National Post, Toronto, Canada. "... "97% of the world’s climate scientists” accept the consensus, articles in the Washington Post and elsewhere have begun to claim ... The number stems from a 2009 online survey of 10,257 earth scientists, conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois. The survey results must have deeply disappointed the researchers – in the end, they chose to highlight the views of a subgroup of just 77 scientists, 75 of whom thought humans contributed to climate change. The ratio 75/77 produces the 97% figure that pundits now tout." Here is an extract from the Web site of Joanne Nova in Australia: "In August 2010, the HockeySchtick site pointed out the 97% figure was just 75 self selected scientists. As as example of the way the chant is spun, the author, “MS” linked to the un SkepticalScience site and the screen image that John Cook posted in an article titled: “Visually depicting the disconnect between climate scientists, media and the public" [as follows]. |
