Helen Dyer forwards this:

It is important to note that the widely quoted "97% of scientists” who are claimed to support anthropogenic global warming actually consists of 79 scientists hand-picked by University of Illinois master’s student, Kendall Zimmerman and her advisor, Peter Doran, from a pool of 3,146 who returned surveys. Seventy-nine divided by 3,146 = .0251. This is not science, it is the anti-intellectual instigation of fear for pay. ("Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,” published in Earth & Space Science News, 20 January 2009.) Question #2 was Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?”
Note that "significant contributing factor” is very different from CAUSING climate change, previously called "global warming.”

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