The myth of scientific consensus on climate change

Two Democratic candidates said “climate change” is the biggest threat facing the world in tonight’s debate.

Bigger than ISIS?

Bigger than an Iran with a nuclear bomb?

Bigger than Putin’s expansion into the Ukraine and the mideast?

Bigger than a belligerent and nuclear North Korea?

Bigger than the systematic erosion of our First Amendment?

I could go on.

Is climate change the biggest threat facing the world? Not according to most scientists. I am re-running a QD blogpost from earlier this year which addresses the question:

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The myth of scientific consensus on climate change

It is reported ad infinitum that 97% of climate scientists believe in a man-made climate change crisis.

From where did this statistic come? From a guy named Professor John Cook of the University of Queensland in a paper published last year that claims to have reviewed over 11,000 climate science articles…

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