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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1328324" data-attributes="member: 45230"><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/17/to-john-cook-it-isnt-hate-its-pity-pity-for-having-such-a-weak-argument-you-are-forced-to-fabricate-in-epic-proportions/" target="_blank">John Cook</a> is an Australian alarmist who a year ago produced a paper purporting to show that 97 per cent of studies supported the &quot;consensus&quot; on man-made global warming. It was eagerly seized on by the left-wing activists who run President Obama&#039;s Twitter account, who gleefully tweeted under the name @barackobama &quot;Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous&quot; - with a link to the paper.But the paper, in fact, showed nothing of the kind. Recently a researcher named <a href="http://hiizuru.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/my-hundredth-post-cant-be-shown/" target="_blank">Brandon Shollenberger</a> gained access to some of the data used in Cook&#039;s paper and found the statistical methodology to be <a href="http://hiizuru.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/my-hundredth-post-cant-be-shown/" target="_blank">fatally flawed</a>.<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/16/Climate-McCarthyism-the-scandal-grows" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/16/Climate-McCarthyism-the-scandal-grows</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1328324, member: 45230"] [URL='http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/17/to-john-cook-it-isnt-hate-its-pity-pity-for-having-such-a-weak-argument-you-are-forced-to-fabricate-in-epic-proportions/']John Cook[/URL] is an Australian alarmist who a year ago produced a paper purporting to show that 97 per cent of studies supported the "consensus" on man-made global warming. It was eagerly seized on by the left-wing activists who run President Obama's Twitter account, who gleefully tweeted under the name @barackobama "Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous" - with a link to the paper. But the paper, in fact, showed nothing of the kind. Recently a researcher named [URL='http://hiizuru.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/my-hundredth-post-cant-be-shown/']Brandon Shollenberger[/URL] gained access to some of the data used in Cook's paper and found the statistical methodology to be [URL='http://hiizuru.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/my-hundredth-post-cant-be-shown/']fatally flawed[/URL]. [url]http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/16/Climate-McCarthyism-the-scandal-grows[/url] [/QUOTE]

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