In what can only be described as an act of pure
desperation in what was yet another attempt to prove this cockamamie leftist
theory of man-caused ‘climate changed is a reality, Barry “Almighty’, only one
of many of the high-priests of the ‘climate change’ religion, said, just a
couple of days ago, that he's quite confident that his successor will honor any
‘climate change’ agreement negotiated in Paris because, if for no other reason,
"99.5 percent of scientists and 99 percent of world leaders" think
that climate change "is really important." I guess by implying that only .5 percent of
scientists disagree the theory of ‘climate change’, it must be true.
Barry’s idiotic claim that there is somehow now a 99.5
percent consensus among scientists on climate change represents a 2.5 percent
increase since May 16, 2013, when it was Barry then who tweeted that,
“Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made
and dangerous.” And it was during a
press conference in Paris that Barry said, “Everybody else is taking climate
change really seriously. They think it's a really big problem. It spans
political parties.” Now I’m not sure
which ‘everybody’ it is that Barry might be talking about, unless, of course,
it’s ‘everybody on the left.’ If that’s
the case, then he might be right.
So it was then in responding to a question that he
was asked about whether or not foreign leaders can believe the U.S. will keep
any commitments that it makes in Paris especially if it is a Republican who succeeds
him in the White House that Barry responded by saying, “Whoever is the next
president of the United States, if they come in and they suggest somehow that
that global consensus — not just 99.5% of scientists and experts, but 99% of
world leaders — think this is really important, I think the president of the
United States is going to need to think this is really important.” Any Republican who this malarkey is important
should not be elected!
But anyway, in getting back to this idiotic drivel
about there now being ’97 percent of scientists” who agree with this climate
lunacy, the origin of this much ballyhooed statistic apparently dates back to a
2009 study by some University of Illinois/Chicago graduate student by the name
of Kendall Zimmerman. Apparently
Zimmerman sent out a survey to 10,257 earth scientists asking them two
questions: 1) “When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean
global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively
constant?” and 2) “Do you think human activity is a significant contributing
factor in changing mean global temperatures?”
Now it was 82 percent of the 3,146 scientists who bothered
to complete Zimmerman’s silly little survey (which boils down to a 30.7%
response rate) that answered “yes” to question 2. That figure included 75 of
the 79 individuals (97.4%) who self-identified themselves as climate
scientists. And then it was in a 2013
paper published by the Institute of Physic’s IOPScience and cited by NASA that
University of Queensland climate communication fellow John Cook also stated
that 97 percent of scientists who took a position on global warming agreed that
humans were the primary cause. So despite
the fact that it was a complete fabrication it was again cited as fact.
However, a peer review of Cook’s paper by David
Legates, a former state climatologist and professor at the University of
Delaware, which was published in the April 2015 issue of Science and Education thoroughly
debunked the 97 percent consensus figure.
Legates pointed out that only 41 of the 11,944 academic papers Cook
examined in his meta-analysis (0.3%) explicitly stated that most of the global
warming since 1950 was caused by human activity. Legates wrote, “It is astonishing that any
journal could have published a paper claiming a 97% climate consensus when in
the authors’ own analysis the true consensus was well below 1%.”
Cook’s paper was also criticized by other scientists
for what they referred to as a number of methodological errors. It was the three authors of ‘Why
Scientists Disagree About Global Warming’ that wrote in a just-released book
published by the Heartland Institute that, “Probably the most widely repeated
claim in the debate over global warming is that ‘97% of scientists agree’ that
climate change is man-made and dangerous.”
They added, “This claim is not only false, but its presence in the
debate is an insult to science.” But
that certainly hasn’t prevented Barry, or others, from repeating it ad nauseam
in an effort to add credibility to their claims.
So Barry, and the rest of the ‘climate change’
zealots can continue to make their idiotic claim about how there is an
overwhelming number of ‘scientists’ who support their theory and that it’s you
and I who are behind that which is causing the planet to get warmer, but it’s
all nothing more than pure unadulterated leftist bullshit. And the thing is, they KNOW it’s all
bullshit. How could they not? But their hope is that if they continue to
talk about it, and to claim that every major calamity that comes about is
somehow related to climate change, they will finally succeed in convincing
enough of us to go along with them. And that we cannot allow to have happen!
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