Correction / counting
One listed Cook paper was mitigation, not endorsement; a welding paper was explicit endorsement. Fraudulent studies have no percentage left to recompute.
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The climate science consensus is 78 – 84 percent (Updated)
Qualified surveys of climate scientists put attribution consensus at 78-84%, not 97%. Cook-style abstract ratings are not surveys and should not set it.
Read Article →Comment on Verheggen et al.; climate consensus research
Verheggen et al. invited non-climate authors and cannot say who answered. Consensus research is often junk; valid surveys still show a real majority.
Read Article →Ignore climate consensus studies based on random people rating journal article abstracts.
Cook’s 97% paper counted stove surveys and psychology abstracts as climate endorsement. Activist raters cannot measure a scientific consensus.
Read Article →But climate scientist so-and-so says it’s not a big deal...
Reading only dissenting climate scientists is confirmation bias. Weigh the majority view too; contrarians remain useful even if they are wrong.
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