The religious fervor of “the masses” who believe that people are causing climate change is another example. Yet the claim that "thousands of climate scientists agree about AGW is not true.
“In 2014, Bart Verheggen of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency surveyed 1,868 climate scientists. They found that, consistent with other research, the level of agreement on anthropogenic causation correlated with expertise – 90% of those surveyed with more than 10 peer-reviewed papers related to climate (just under half of survey respondents) explicitly agreed that greenhouse gases was the main cause of global warming.”
Just under half of 1868 = 932 – 90% of 932 scientists = 839 a far cry from the “thousands (or ALL) of scientists agree” that is bandied about.
The religious fervor of “the masses” who believe that people are causing climate change is another example. Yet the claim that "thousands of climate scientists agree about AGW is not true.
“In 2014, Bart Verheggen of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency surveyed 1,868 climate scientists. They found that, consistent with other research, the level of agreement on anthropogenic causation correlated with expertise – 90% of those surveyed with more than 10 peer-reviewed papers related to climate (just under half of survey respondents) explicitly agreed that greenhouse gases was the main cause of global warming.”
Just under half of 1868 = 932 – 90% of 932 scientists = 839 a far cry from the “thousands (or ALL) of scientists agree” that is bandied about.