London, 2 September: In recent
weeks US President Obama and the UK’s Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Davey
have both cited a survey of climate science abstracts that alleges an
overwhelming consensus on the subject of global warming.
In a new
briefing note published by the Global
Warming Policy Foundation today, Andrew Montford reviews the
methodology used in the survey and concludes that the consensus revealed by the
paper by Cook et al. is so broad that it incorporates the views of most
prominent climate sceptics.
“The consensus as described by the survey is virtually meaningless and tells us
nothing about the current state of scientific opinion beyond the trivial
observation that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that human activities
have warmed the planet to some unspecified extent,” Andrew Montford says.
“The survey methodology therefore fails to address the key points that are in
dispute in the global warming debate,” Montford adds.
Andrew Montford: Consensus?
What Consensus?
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