Timothy Birdnow

Hits the nail on the head on the whole Climate Change issue.

Just a taste:

Cook et al. (2013) ‘Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature‘ searched some 11,944 abstracts of scientific papers published between 1991-2011 in an online database called The Web of Science for the phrases "global warming” and "global climate change”

Without reading the papers, nor even the sentences in which the key words appeared, Cooke the activist found 97% of the abstract of the papers examined contained the key words sought.

From this, and nothing more, Cooke et al., and concluded and reported that some 11500 of the papers, or 97%, must be endorsing the idea of human activity as primarily responsible (that is more than half of the contributory cause) for global warming, and that the levels of global warming are dangerous.Note that this is paper, not authors. There were 29,083 authors listed on the 11,944 papers.

In reality, a more honest review of the same database by real scientists found that only 65 papers (0.5%) explicitly said humans contributed some effect to global warming. Almost none said the human contribution was the primary cause, or that it was dangerous.

To add insult to injury, Cooke’s emails were leaked to the press, and before he ever began the so called research, he explicit says what result he seeks to find, and says it will be used as a public relations gimmick.

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