What the president was referring to was a 2013 paper by the
University of Queensland’s John Cook. In his research, Cook studied
11,994 papers published between 1991 and 2011 that mentioned the search
words “global warming” and “global climate change.”
Guess what Cook actually found? Only 32.6 percent of the papers endorsed the view of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. But of that group, 97 percent said that “recent warming is mostly man-made.”
And so, by a nice sleight-of-hand obfuscation, the great “97 percent consensus” was born.
Excuse me for a bit, I need to go annoy some people with this
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