To: Land Shark who wrote (52814 ) 5/30/2014 10:27:47 AM From: Sdgla 1 RecommendationRecommended By FJB
Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86355 Plain and simple you are full of it. Proof :that the paper had erroneously and gravely over-claimed 97.1% “scientific consensus;that the authors had tried to conceal that they had had categorized only 64 abstracts out of 11,944 as explicitly endorsing the “scientific consensus” as they had defined it;that, even then, the authors had miscategorised 23 of the 64 abstracts as endorsing that “scientific consensus” when the 23 had not in fact endorsed it;that the authors had failed to disclose that their effective sample size was not 11,944 nor even 4014 papers but just 119, rendering the entire exercise meaningless;that, on the basis that one of the authors now says was intended, that author says they had meant 87% consensus (not 97%) among just 73 abstracts (not 4014);that the true “scientific consensus”, after correcting an obvious error in the newly-asserted (and still strange) basis for calculation, would be 34% of just 119 abstracts;that the authors had failed to admit that only 1% of the 4014 abstracts they marked as expressing an opinion had endorsed the “scientific consensus” as they had defined it;that the authors had failed to disclose that only 0.3% of all 11,944 abstracts had endorsed that “scientific consensus”;that the authors had not adhered to a single definition of “scientific consensus”; andthat one of the authors, in a public scientific forum, continues in defiance of the truth to assert that 97.1% had “said that recent warming is mostly man made”, when very nearly all of the abstracts had neither stated nor implied any such thing. * From the Los Angeles Times story on the IPCC’s problems, citing GIT scientist Judith Curry: “All other things being equal, adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will have a warming effect on the planet,” Curry said. “However, all things are never equal, and what we are seeing is natural climate variability dominating over human impact.”