John Oliver - Global Warming Video

[Heywood]

THAT is what scientists are saying. They agree not just that it's happening, but that it's human caused. 97% agreed, actually. How did you miss that part?

Citation please? Putting aside the appeal to authority/consensus… I keep hearing that figure.

The source of this 97% figure is so nebulous it is useless. However I can see it being something like this:

Poll Question 1: Is climate change happening?
Poll Question 2: Is human activity a factor in climate change?

Any scientist worth his salt would answer yes to both those questions. Then someone with an agenda can spin those results and claim 97% of scientist agree humans are a driving force behind climate change.

Climate change is happening, no educated person should claim otherwise. Humans are a factor in climate change, again no educated person should claim otherwise. Do 97% of scientist believe we are headed toward a climate catastrophe? I doubt it.

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Citation please? Putting aside the appeal to authority/consensus… I keep hearing that figure.

Is that National Academy of Science good enough.... or would you demand some crackpot blond shithead on FOX say it?

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/0...7.abstract

Here, we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.

The claim is 97% of climate researchers most actively publishing support the tenets of the ACC.

Does anyone know what those tenets are? For all we know one of the tenets might be, "Jello tastes good".....and of course 97% of scientist would agree to that.