freediver wrote on Apr 9
th, 2019 at 6:55pm:
I thought you might be able to look at the long list of references yourself. They exist, regardless of wikipedia. After the idiocy you have copied and pasted here, mostly unsourced, it's a bit hypocritical for you to have a go at wikipedia. But I guess blatant hypocrisy is pretty much a pre-requisite these days to be a climate skeptic.
You men like Nature magazine, IPCC?
Now that wiki article says there is a consensus on climate change. Although that wasn't my argument. I said science wasn't done by consensus.
"Among the most-cited is a 2013 study of nearly 12,000 abstracts science published since 1990, of which just over 4,000 papers expressed an opinion on the cause of recent global warming. Of these, 97% agree, explicitly or implicitly, that global warming is happening and is human-caused.[2][3]"
So ok I looked at a reference. John Cook et al 2013.
Now I have linked to this before because quite often people say the Cook et al paper says that 97% of climate scientists say global warming is happening and is human caused.
From the paper referenced -
"We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming."
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/02402411.,944 papers. 68.4% had no opinion.
32.6% endorsed AGW
0.7% rejected, and
0.3% were unsure.
From that we can take that 33.3% expressed an opinion on climate change (lines 2 and 3). 97.1% of that 33.3% of abstracts (not climate scientists) endorsed the consensus.
So 33.3% of 97.1% is 32.33%. NOT 97% of abstracts or climate scientists.
Further the number of climate scientists who said more than 50% warming was due to AGW was 0.3% or 41 papers.
This can be seen at -
https://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/media/erl460291datafile.txtReference "Endorsement"
And should you wish to look you can see the ratings given at column 3.
https://skepticalscience.com/docs/self_vs_abstracts_private.txtEnjoy.