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    Re: An interesting perspective Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on April 27, 2019, 7:47 pm, in reply to "An interesting perspective"

    On the 97% claim:

    'Cook et al. examined 11,944 abstracts from the peer-reviewed scientific literature from 1991–2011 that matched the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'.[12] They found that, while 66.4% of them expressed no position on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), of those that did, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are contributing to global warming. They also invited authors to rate their own papers and found that, while 35.5% rated their paper as expressing no position on AGW, 97.2% of the rest endorsed the consensus. In both cases the percentage of endorsements among papers expressing a position was marginally increasing over time. They concluded that the number of papers actually rejecting the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research.[12]

    In their discussion of the results in 2007, the authors said that the large proportion of abstracts that state no position on AGW is as expected in a consensus situation,[13] adding that "the fundamental science of AGW is no longer controversial among the publishing science community and the remaining debate in the field has moved on to other topics."[12] ' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveys_of_scientists%27_views_on_climate_change

    His guru Tony Heller aka Steven Goddard retracted the arctic sea ice theory himself:

    'Steven Goddard writes: “Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC has convinced me this week that their ice extent numbers are solid…. It is clear that the NSIDC graph is correct, and that 2008 Arctic ice is barely 10% above last year — just as NSIDC had stated.”'

    https://thinkprogress.org/a-new-olympic-record-for-retraction-of-a-denier-talking-point-aa88ac3a7ae1/

    His desmog blog profile is unsurprisingly unflattering:

    https://www.desmogblog.com/steven-goddard

    Shows the intellectual dishonesty of this commentator. Though funnily enough I think there is some truth to the idea that mainstream environmentalism (as curated by the media and corporate political culture) has borrowed a lot of its guilt complex and focus on ineffective personal 'solutions' to divert away from challenging power on a systemic basis from christianity. XR aren't that mainstream though.

    cheers,
    I

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