"...Sierra Club president Aaron Mair, after an uncomfortable pause of his own, appealed to authority: “Ninety-seven percent of scientists concur and agree that there is global warming and anthropogenic impact,” he stated multiple times.
...The myth of an almost-unanimous climate-change consensus is pervasive.
...In 2004, University of California-San Diego professor Naomi Oreskes reported that, of 928 scientific abstracts from papers published by refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, “75% . . . either explicitly or implicitly accept[ed] the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change.
Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.”
Also remarkably, the papers chosen excluded several written by prominent scientists skeptical of that consensus.
Furthermore, the claims made in abstracts — short summaries of academic papers — often differ from those made in the papers themselves.
...The “97 percent” statistic first appeared prominently in a 2009 study by University of Illinois master’s student Kendall Zimmerman and her adviser, Peter Doran.
Based on a two-question online survey..."
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