SO throwing out over 98% of the published papers, then giving full weight to just 77 papers where just three dissented is doing credible science?
Sounds to me like you think Cook's dick is a baby bottle..
What the fuck is wrong with you? Cook did not use 77 papers, he used 4,014 out of an initial selection of 12,744.
The 77 papers that you dumbfucks keeping trying to throw in there was in the survey by Doran and Zimmerman. They sent inquiries to 10,257 Earth scientists, got responses from 3,146 and found 79 of those in which the authors "listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change". That you all think that's such crap is just another de facto piece of evidence that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about on statistics or just about anything else. The results from the full 3,146 respondents had 90% agreement that global warming was taking place and 82% that human activity was a significant factor in that warming. So, if you've been comforting yourself with the fantasy that a majority of all scientists would side with you, forget it. No matter how broad the group, you're still fringe whackjobs who don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
AS always, you are incorrect.
Here from a piece in WattsUpWithThat, Link:
Cooks '97% consensus' disproven by a new peer reviewed paper showing major math errors
Excerpt:
"The new paper by the leading climatologist Dr David Legates and his colleagues, published in the respected
Science and Education journal, now in its 21st year of publication, reveals that Cook had not considered whether scientists and their published papers had said climate change was “dangerous”.
The consensus Cook considered was the standard definition: that Man had caused most post-1950 warming. Even on this weaker definition the true consensus among published scientific papers is now demonstrated to be not 97.1%, as Cook had claimed, but only 0.3%.
Only 41 out of the 11,944 published climate papers Cook examined explicitly stated that Man caused most of the warming since 1950. Cook himself had flagged just 64 papers as explicitly supporting that consensus, but 23 of the 64 had not in fact supported it."
And:
"Dr William Briggs, “Statistician to the Stars”, said: “In any survey such as Cook’s, it is essential to define the survey question very clearly. Yet Cook used three distinct definitions of climate consensus interchangeably. Also, he arbitrarily excluded about 8000 of the 12,000 papers in his sample on the unacceptable ground that they had expressed no opinion on the climate consensus. These artifices let him reach the unjustifiable conclusion that there was a 97.1% consensus when there was not."
Which Cook agrees with in his Skepitcal Science site:
Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
Excerpt:
"Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers expressed a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused global warming.
We found that about two-thirds of papers didn't express a position on the subject in the abstract, which confirms that we were conservative in our initial abstract ratings. This result isn't surprising for two reasons: 1) most journals have strict word limits for their abstracts, and 2) frankly, every scientist doing climate research knows humans are causing global warming. There's no longer a need to state something so obvious. For example, would you expect every geological paper to note in its abstract that the Earth is a spherical body that orbits the sun?"
Cook agrees that two thirds of the documents were not part of the position he was interested in to find his 97%.
Funny shit don't you think?