Looks like the Wall Street Journal may have decided to stop being part of the Government echo chamber and engage their brain. Hope springs eternal that critical thought still lives, and may yet thrive some time in the future. Most American Lemmings, it seems, are content to repeat ‘authority’ figures ad nauseam as they are trained to do in our state-run education system. They never bother to consider the mindless, unproven drivel they haplessly repeat; and whose only foil against logic is to call names. The ability to critically analyze information seems to be lost on a majority of our fellows through time-tested washing of the brains by our scientific social engineers running amok in our media and our school systems.
The Myth of the Climate Change ‘97%’
What is the origin of the false belief—constantly repeated—that almost all scientists agree about global warming? By Joseph Bast And Roy Spencer
Last week Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the “crippling consequences” of climate change. “Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists,” he added, “tell us this is urgent.”
Where did Mr. Kerry get the 97% figure? Perhaps from his boss, President Obama, who tweeted on May 16 that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” Or maybe from NASA, which posted (in more measured language) on its website, “Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.”
Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research.