MOTR wrote on Nov 23
rd, 2012 at 4:28am:
You've copied and pasted this rubbish from Watts once before. I'm pretty sure I supplied a couple of other studies that support the 97%. I guess you weren't listening.
Which part is "rubbish" exactly?
Are you saying this is all a lie:
"Here are but just a few of many responses
from scientists that actually took part in the survey, taken from the appendi of the MSc thesis:
“..scientific issues cannot be decided by a vote of scientists. A consensus is not, at any given time, a good predictor of where the truth actually resides..”
“..The “hockey stick” graph that the IPCC so touted has, it is my understanding, been debunked as junk science..”
“..I’m not sure what you are trying to prove, but you will undoubtably be able to prove your pre-existing opinion with this survey! I’m sorry I even started it!..” (Doran/Zimmerman feedback)
"I wonder just how many politicians or environmentalists (or scientists) that have used the phrase ’97% of climate scientists, have actually read the original source of the cited survey.
“Climate is a very complex system with many variables including sun radiation cycles, ocean temperature, and possibly other factors that we are not even aware of.
"There are studies and data out there that are being overlooked by the IPCC. Ultimately, maybe we are the biggest cause or maybe we are not, but the current push of saying that human activity is the cause is interfering with an unbiased and scientific evaluation.”
Are you now
ignoring what these scientists say?
Why is that?
You love to quote the 97% figure, yet you totally ignore what the scientists involved in the survey actually say? Why is it all of a sudden "rubbish"?