Wednesday, May 28, 2014

An Evaluation

How reliable are the figures quoted both by the President and Secretary Kerry to the effect that 97% of scientists agree that global warming is man-caused and dangerous? Answer: not very.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer look at the various attempts to discern a scientific consensus and conclude as follows:
There is no basis for the claim that 97% of scientists believe that man-made climate change is a dangerous problem.
In fact, they cite evidence that many scientists disagree with the claim.