Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by lliamander on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:59PM
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The question here is whether that 97% accept that humans are the main cause of global warming, which is arguably not supported by the evidence presented in the Cook paper.
To quote Friedman in a follow-up post:
> My objection was that the 97% figure lumped together categories 1-3, when only category 1 fitted Cook's "main cause." Categories 2 and 3 were papers saying or implying that human action was a cause—"contributed to" in the language of the example. Category 1 contained 64 papers, or 1.6%, not 97%.[0]
Which does not mean that there isn't a large consensus that humans are the primary cause of global warming. What we can infer is:
1. The Cook paper is not evidence of that consensus
2. That Cook himself is perhaps not a reliable source.
To quote Friedman in a follow-up post:
> My objection was that the 97% figure lumped together categories 1-3, when only category 1 fitted Cook's "main cause." Categories 2 and 3 were papers saying or implying that human action was a cause—"contributed to" in the language of the example. Category 1 contained 64 papers, or 1.6%, not 97%.[0]
Which does not mean that there isn't a large consensus that humans are the primary cause of global warming. What we can infer is:
1. The Cook paper is not evidence of that consensus
2. That Cook himself is perhaps not a reliable source.
[0]https://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/2014/03/john-cooks-respo...