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You and your bs methods are mentioned in the conclusion of the cook report! Let that sink in for a moment
...the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year'
originally posted by: Jubei42
Pick another one?
What do you think this is? Some kind of quiz?
Avoid debating the emperical evidence and data?
Dude, I just exposed you for the data manipulating fraud that you are. And you are still taking swings at this?
LMFAO. I didn't do that. The authors of the paper did that. Your argument isn't just invalid, it supports my position. I have done nothing but shown their data and read beyond the title.
You took the data from the papers and made up some nonsense 'quantify' 'minimize' subdivision to manipulate the data so it can fit you rhetoric.
The Cook study gave papers a numeric rating. Rating #1 was "explicitly endorses and quantifies AGW as >50%". Out of 12,464 papers considered, only 65 papers were in this category (note: this was just based on study participants reading the abstracts, not the full paper).
Based on that statistic alone, one could defend the claim that one half of one percent of papers on AGW clearly claim humans are the chief cause of it. That headline finding would be "less than one percent of expert papers explicitly agree that global warming is anthropogenic."
But maybe it's not fair to include the "no position" papers. Let's exclude those. In that case, the headline finding is "1.5% (65/4215) of expert papers that took some position on global warming explicitly agree that global warming is anthropogenic."
The full list of endorsement categories were as follows:
Explicitly endorses and quantifies AGW as >50% (65 articles)
Explicitly endorses but does not quantify or minimize (934 articles)
Implicitly endorses AGW without minimizing it (2934 articles)
No position (8269 articles)
Implicitly minimizes or rejects AGW (53 articles)
Explicitly minimizes or rejects AGW but does not quantify (15 articles)
Explicitly minimizes or rejects AGW as less than 50% (10 articles)
If we sum the rejection categories 5-7 together, there were 78 articles rejecting AGW, versus only 65 explicitly supporting the consensus. So another defensible headline finding is: "More articles implicitly or explicitly reject AGW than claim more than half of AGW is anthropogenic."
Or we could look at JUST the papers that give an explicit numeric percentage estimate. Comparing category 1 with category 7, we get this defensible headline: "87% of scientific articles that give a percentage estimate claim more than half of warming is anthropogenic". (though it would be important to note the actual number of articles in that case isn't much of a sample: 65 for versus 10 against).
Or if we want to rescue the original Cook number, that can be accomplished by adding a few caveats. Like so: "97% of articles on global warming that take a position on the matter either implicitly or explicitly endorse that human activity is causing some global warming"
Since the vast majority (98.5%) of these papers don't quantify how much warming, that's about as far as we can go.
originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: Jubei42
LMFAO. I didn't do that. The authors of the paper did that. Your argument isn't just invalid, it supports my position. I have done nothing but shown their data and read beyond the title.
originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: Jubei42
I'm bored of debunking Cook, dig up another paper, they're all much the same. Lets move onto another one.
originally posted by: D8Tee
originally posted by: Jubei42
a reply to: D8Tee
You've provided jack. And you know it
I'll pick confrontational over fraudulent any day of the week
Were you born stupid, or do you have to try hard at it?
What part of 'thats Cooks own Data' don't you get?
Nothing was made up.
originally posted by: Jubei42
originally posted by: D8Tee
originally posted by: Jubei42
a reply to: D8Tee
You've provided jack. And you know it
I'll pick confrontational over fraudulent any day of the week
Were you born stupid, or do you have to try hard at it?
What part of 'thats Cooks own Data' don't you get?
The part that was made up
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Skepticism is healthy, except when in comes to the authenticity and sincerity of scientists pushing an agenda where taxes are raised and government is over-reaching.
Good thing government and scientists are never wrong.