Love the attempts to justify the lie...
You cant make this stuff up.. Its hilarious.... 'Ignore the 11,647 other papers that say no.. our 77 papers out weigh them all and are true...'
Speaking of ignorant posters on the internet.... Why should i believe the ones posting up hyperbole in an effort to make their claims of consensus true?
So, you think Legates refutes the dozen or so other studies that show he's a simple sellout to the fossil fuel industry. A review of the literature like Legates' and Cook's (and Naomi Watts', Anderegg's and Powell's) is open to intentional misuse. Legate's insistence that the studies include specific statements and counting every paper which did not make it, as rejecting the statement, was a ridiculous effort to bias the results. But, anyone can pull up a paper and claim that it says anything. What they cannot do, is survey the authors of those papers and determine whether or not they agree with the characterization or classification the surveyors made. Legates did not do it. Cook did. Cook wins. The results of every study that has asked climate scientists what they think has agreed with the results of literature surveys. NO survey of climate scientists has EVER found numbers within orders of magnitude of what Legates claims to be the case.
Legates is a fool and no one will ever again trust him to provide objective, quality information on anything.
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