LawfoolNeutral wrote on Mar 23
rd, 2017 at 10:30pm:
Quotation from page 6: "The number of papers rejecting AGW [Anthropogenic, or human-caused, Global Warming] is a miniscule proportion of the published research, with the percentage slightly decreasing over time. Among papers expressing a position on AGW, an overwhelming percentage (97.2% based on self-ratings, 97.1% based on abstract ratings) endorses the scientific consensus on AGW.”
To which study did they refer? The diabolical Doran and Zimmerman, the miserable Anderegg or the laughable Cook. Each has its faults. For Cook to get his 97% he had to discount most of his 11,000 papers. In the end he used the abstracts of 4,014 papers. And even then they weren't that robust.
"The scientists examined 4,014 abstracts on climate change and found 97.2 percent of the papers
assumed humans play a role in global warming (ClimateWire, May 16, 2013)."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-determine-the-scientific-conse...Assumed ? Not evidentiary based?