You know how 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, and due to human causes? So what about the 3% that don’t? A new study examined those.<\/p>\n
Quartz: Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed<\/a><\/p>\n \nBut what about those 3% of papers that reach contrary conclusions? Some skeptics have suggested that the authors of studies indicating that climate change is not real, not harmful, or not man-made are bravely standing up for the truth, like maverick thinkers of the past. (Galileo is often invoked, though his fellow scientists mostly agreed with his conclusions<\/a> — it was church leaders who tried to suppress them.)<\/p>\n Not so, according to a review published in<\/a> the journal of Theoretical and Applied Climatology. The researchers tried to replicate the results of those 3% of papers\u2014a common way to test scientific studies\u2014and found biased, faulty results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Curious that the study is from November 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know how 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, and due to human causes? So what about the 3% that don’t? A new study examined those. Quartz: Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? … Continue reading