It's an even less plausible figure, which only serves to demonstrate the imposition of toxic political orthodoxy over free and unfettered scientific investigation and debate, not a meaningful scientific consensus.
https://twitter.com/mark_lynas/status/1450480851985252354
You can read why the last figure was a ludicrous claim, which I wrote about at the time at blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencep…
Lynas is regressing. He'll be going back to custard pies, soon.
Lynas is regressing. He'll be going back to custard pies, soon.
How does *any* field produce a meaningful >99% 'consensus'?
It doesn't. It is either the product of politics or it is meaningless. Or both, of course.
It's the work of an archetypal activist-academic, though, and so we should expect such guff.
It doesn't. It is either the product of politics or it is meaningless. Or both, of course.
It's the work of an archetypal activist-academic, though, and so we should expect such guff.
Physicists will be surprised to discover that there exists a 'consensus on gravity'.
This only shows this chap's ignorance, not in fact his grasp of science.
This only shows this chap's ignorance, not in fact his grasp of science.
https://twitter.com/jswatz/status/1450513419581501447
Let's run with it, all the same...
* Any person can demonstrate the presence of gravity.
* No person can either demonstrate, much less claim to have experienced the object of the putative 'consensus' on climate change.
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* Any person can demonstrate the presence of gravity.
* No person can either demonstrate, much less claim to have experienced the object of the putative 'consensus' on climate change.
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* Despite there being a 'consensus' on climate change, this article claims that, "More than two score relativistic theories of gravitation have been proposed".
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ESSAYS/…
ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ESSAYS/…
*That* is why I suggest that either...
1. The consensus is not meaningful (equivalent to the lay demonstration of gravity, but without any such evidence to speak to its existence.)
2. It is political.
3. Or it is both.
1. The consensus is not meaningful (equivalent to the lay demonstration of gravity, but without any such evidence to speak to its existence.)
2. It is political.
3. Or it is both.
How can a 'consensus' be political?
Simple. The consensus has typically been measured by analysis of abstracts.
1. Many abstracts state their adherence to political orthodoxy by stating an approximation of it in their abstract, despite the paper not testing the proposition.
Simple. The consensus has typically been measured by analysis of abstracts.
1. Many abstracts state their adherence to political orthodoxy by stating an approximation of it in their abstract, despite the paper not testing the proposition.
2. Per 1, there is immense pressure to conform, not least from the likes of Lynas and his current and past colleagues to remove any academic from their posts for daring to disagree.
On that occasion, Lynas, styled as 'Pie Man' aimed to prevent Lomborg from speaking on Oxford University property. Similarly, Lomborg faced ongoing harassment and cancellation for daring to depart, not from science, but political orthodoxy, including from climate scientists.
3. Quite simply, research proposals that seek to attach themselves to the climate issue are far more likely to attract funding, because governments and public and private funding bodies LOVE 'policy relevant' research.
Any attempt to claim to have detected a 'consensus' that fails to understand the political nature of even seemingly policy-neutral research is more of the same, politically-motivated research.
Academic climate advocate's own research argues that the demonstration of a scientific consensus impresses on people sufficiently to encourage their political alignment. ...
Thus the authors and adherents of the 'gateway belief model' of climate science communication double as policemen, enforcing the consensus on campus. They believe that there should be no debate, because it undermines the consensus.
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