Hooboy, College of Lake County does it again

I paste this due to another inconvenient truth; that students in a club run by students are being led down an invasive and evasive path by their advisor of non-learning a most obvious truth: the truth behind stats. Another inconvenient truth that CLC has a club that attaches itself - apparently - to ideas unsubstantiated by or based on actual recognised climate expert scientific agreement; not the "findings" of ad hoc panels formed at the behest of personal whims.

It does not matter whose idea it is to show "An Inconvenient Truth", it is an adviser's job to advise. So either the information below is included for discussion of the inconvenient truth or the better advise would be to ignore "The Inconvenient Truth" - the movie.

List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Various surveys have been conducted to determine a scientific consensus on global warming. Only one has been conducted within the last ten years.

[edit] Oreskes, 2004

In December 2004, an article by geologist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes summarized a study of the scientific literature on climate change.^[1] The essay concluded that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The author analyzed 928 abstracts of papers from refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, listed with the keywords "global climate change". The abstracts were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. 75% of the abstracts were placed in the first three categories, thus either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, thus taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change; none of the abstracts disagreed with the consensus position, which the author found to be "remarkable". It was also pointed out, "authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point."

The Oreskes essay in Science claiming a consensus for man-made global warming was falsified within weeks of its appearance by Appell and Peiser, leading to an embarrassing correcton from Oreskes in the same journal, admitting that she had reported a literature search based on the words 'climate change' but in fact had used the term 'global climate change'. When this literature search was repeated by Peiser it was found that only 1% of the scientific research paper abstracts for the period in question explicitly supported a man-made origin for recent climate change. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Scienceletter.htm

Science curiously refused to publish further details of the falsified Oreskes work submitted by Peiser, whose own work was criticised, but this proved to be groundless as the additional confusion had actually arisen due to further sloppy reporting by Oreskes who had also failed to make it clear that her original search was on 'articles only' rather than on 'all document types'.

Peiser subsequently set out every one of the abstracts, by year, for others to see for themselves that Oreskes' survey findings were indeed false. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Oreskes-abstracts.htm

This outcome hasn't prevented individuals and organisations from continuing to report, wrongly, this summarily discredited literature search as somehow supporting anthropogenic climate change.

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Pasted due to the volatile nature of the lack of reporting elsewhere.

Just in case you can't make up your own mind, try this for size in your pee-brain!

And, in some perverse twist of my own self-foisted irony, I have created a media monster in that of promoting the very thing I wished not to promote: that bull*hit movie. So, then I give you another righteous shameless plug: