Debunking the Climate Scam
Billions of Dollars -
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Bought and Paid For Organizations
5000 Years Of Climate Change From Greenland Ice Cores
According to Oreskes, 75% of the 928 abstracts she analysed (i.e. 695) fell into these first three categories, "either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view". This claim is incorrect on two counts: My analysis shows that only 424 abstracts (or less than a third of the full data set) fall into these three categories.
It also shows that many abstracts on "evaluation of impact" and "mitigation" do not discuss which drivers are key to global climate change, instead often focusing exclusively on the possible effects of elevated CO2 levels on plant growth and vegetation. Many do not include any implicit endorsement of the 'consensus view' but simply use certain assumptions as a basis for often hypothetical impact assessments or mitigation strategies.
Quite a number of papers emphasise that natural factors play a major if not the key role in recent climate change (4). My analysis also shows that there are almost three times as many abstracts that are sceptical of the notion of anthropogenic climate change than those that explicitly endorse it (5, 6, 7).
In fact, the explicit and implicit rejection of the 'consensus view' is not restricted to individual scientists. It also includes distinguished scientific organisations such as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists:
"The earth's climate is constantly changing owing to natural variability in earth
processes. Natural climate variability over recent geological time is greater than
reasonable estimates of potential human-
This is not to deny that there is a majority of publications that, although they do not empirically test or confirm the view of anthropogenic climate change, go along with it by applying models based on its basic assumptions. Yet, it is beyond doubt that a sound and unbiased analysis of the full ISI databank will find hundreds of papers (many of which written by the world's leading experts in the field) that have raised serious reservations and outright rejection of the concept of a "scientific consensus on climate change". The truth is, that there is no such thing!
In light of the data presented above (evidence that can be easily verified), Science should withdraw Oresekes' study and its results in order to prevent any further damage to the integrity of science.
Read the whole story by Benny Peiser here
An update, including abstracts of the articles meeting Oreskes search term: The Oreskes abstracts
The scientific consensus on climate change
Warming Stopped |
NOAA Data |
NorthWest |
Oregon |
Washington |
Extreme Weather |
Past Was Warmer |
NASA: 30's Hotter |
PastBeliefs |
HistoryOFAlarmism |
Central England |
Temperature History |
MultiProxy |
treemometers |
Northwest Passage |
Acidification-Ball |
Acidification-Fulks |
Acidification-Idso |
Selected Emails |
CRU Emails - html formatted |
CRU Emails Simple Format |
CRU Emails UnFormatted |
DCPS paper |
CRU_Files_Notice |
False Deadlines |
Hockey Stick Links |