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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The article posted by Cynthetiq (one of the two links that Ustwo described as excellent), "Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory" by Klaus Martin Schulte, was rejected by the journal Energy and Environment. ( link)
Schulte's article drew heavily from an earlier study by Benny Peiser, who self-published his paper on his own website after Science magazine had rejected it....after his work was criticized by a number of climate scientists, who said most of those 34 papers did not actually reject the IPCC consensus, Peiser later retracted his critique, saying only one of the 34 papers had actually rejected the IPCC position. ( link)
No consensus? There is consensus among the Academies of Science of the largest industrial nations in the world that "is it likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activity." ( link)
Where's the beef in the "no consensus" position? |
And this roachboy is the reason that I don't tread into politics too often because the very notion of not having double and triple checked the author, the poster, the website origins, and six degrees deeper doesn't allow for the converstation to even begin. It is equally negating.
I don't live my life reading journal after journal to backup each and every opinion and thought.
To answer where is the critical thinking? It's right here. I don't believe for a moment that in the big picture that the world is in any peril. There is too many different factors to take into effect from planetary wobble to solar flare activity. The idea that "is it likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activity." is equally an opinion that is mustered by self supporting evidence and facts found that support their opinions.
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