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Heh, this is from a commenter at Slashdot on Cook’s fatally flawed 97% consensus paper. While a bit harsh, it’s also funny. He responds to:
Yeah! It’s like saying that 97% of priests believe in god anyway.
by Razgorov Prikazka (1699498) on Friday May 17, 2013 @11:52AM (#43753313) says:
I agree, and it goes further than just priests! Here are some interesting factoids for you:
97% of the children believe in Santa
97% of paranoid believe they are being followed
97% of the homoeopaths believe in homoeopathy
97% of the astrologists believe in astrology
97% of the KKK think lynchmobs are a good thing
97% of the intelligent design gang are absolutely convinced that God made it all
97% of all the interviewed Zen buddists were convinced it is possible to clap with one hand
97% of the paganist movement think sandals are fashionable
97% of the physicians didnt believe in washing their hands before doing surgery
97% of the politicians think they are doing some great things
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I’ve added a few.
97% of dogs believe in hanging their noses out car windows
97% of cats believe in long naps
97% of Playboy models believe in taking all their clothes off
97% of cooks believe in cooking with heat (the rest are sushi chefs)
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97% of climate scientists are not climate scientists.
96% of scientists didn’t check for themselves.
They are having quite a party in SKS comment sections, the amount of backslapping going on is incredible…
…. and 97% of them have wet themselves with excitement.
🙂
97% of physicians thought bleeding was beneficial. One bled George Washington to death.
SkS is 97% emotion, 4% 0ther.
97% of dishonest, rent seeking, climate psyentists think they are going to carry on peddling their anti-human crap on the tax-payers’ dime for ever.
Interesting how they try to save the 97% number.
Obviously too much already invested in it.
They do not acknowledge that the 97% was obtained through fake statistics, but being so deconstructed by the skeptics and more and more people getting aware of it, they try now to replace it with new statistics.
Typical.
And surprise, surprise, even if making statistics in a different area with different material they come suddenly to 97%. Not 98% or 96% or 95% but exactly the same 97%.
So yes, it is worth only to laugh about it and the fake statistics and their theories by consensus. They are in the same bucket with the astrologists.
I like those
97% of the children believe in Santa
97% of paranoid believe they are being followed
97% of the homoeopaths believe in homoeopathy
97% of the astrologists believe in astrology
…
and all the examples. It is so revealing. The guy was so right: “Yeah! It’s like saying that 97% of priests believe in god anyway.”
And yeah, if you pay a million dollar grant to each and every paper which can prove “scientifically” that Santa exist, you will get ten thousands of papers demonstrating that Santa really exists. And a lot of “scientists” will take this very seriously. Of course if raw data cannot be found it can be easily proven that 97% of toys come from Santa.
This global warming religion is anti-human, anti-environment and anti-science. I think they qualify even for the most absurd epithet of anti-climate (sic). Who else denies there has been a climate and any bigger climate variations before humans “started changing it”?
They destroy the environment with biofuels, windmills, they sabotage science with consensus theories, trying to destroy healthy skepticism, bullying and insulting skeptics, not using the scientific method, they push for non-democratic decisions taking. A very dangerous cult.
OK, stop ranting Lars it is Friday funny time…
97% of the doctors in the 19th century believed humans will not survive traveling with 100 kmh speed
97% of the scientists did not believe meteorites are stones “falling from the sky”
97% of bears shit in the woods. The other 3% are in zoos.
97% of popes are catholic, and male. The other 3% were accidently made pope before someone found out they were actually women.
97% of climate alarmists believe in lying to further the cause. The other 3% are lying.
97% of the time the romans have never done anything for us. Except when it comes to roads, education, medicine, sanitation, public order, wine, and world peace.
97% of the messiahs in ancient Judea claimed to be the messiah. Only the ones who didn’t say they were actually the messiah, were the real messiah.
97% of the Judean People’s Front are against the People’s Front of Judea.
97% of men who want to be women want to have babies, its their right as a man.
97% of the committee voted to stop just sitting around and voting in committees.
97% of the Knights of the Round table thought they were onto something in their search for the holy grail.
I’m sorry, I’m just watching a Monty Python movie. Not bad, for educating oneself about statistics.
97% of ninetysevenpercenters are 97% fools
97% of what Obama says comes from a Teleprompter the other 3% come from his PR twitter feed.
or better still,:
100% of ninetysevenpercenters are 100% fools
97% of cartoonists aren’t dishonest and rent seekers.
Despots and dictators always claim a 97% vote in favour of their policies when they run elections, referenda and polls.
Put an infinite number of journalists in front of a keyboard and 97% of them will type alarm.
97% of politicians who lust for power believe that making government as big and totalitarian as possible is a good idea.
97% of junk scientists actually believe in their theories.
While googling for “97 percent” I found this from 2012.
‘Astonishing’ Heat Wave Melts 97 Percent of Greenland Ice Sheet
Not expected to have a significant impact on sea level rise
By Jason Koebler
July 25, 2012
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/07/25/astonishing-heat-wave-melts-97-percent-of-greenland-ice-sheet
Men and women share 97% of their DNA
Chimps and humans share 98.5% of their DNA.
Therefore … men are more closely related to male chimps than they are to women
*But in fact men and women share 45/46 chromosomes which is 97.8% which just happens to be near enough the human body temperature if Fahrenheit.
[snip – pointless OTT – Anthony]
97% of all living things are creepy-crawlies.
There must be some connection there.
97.1% that read articles and post responses on http://www.wattsupwiththat.com website agree the entire only caused by man Climate change thing is a hoax. 2.99% are trolls and AGW spies.
there are more interesting figures:
http://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu : Latest reading 400,27 ppm
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Oflot says:
May 18, 2013 at 12:19 am
Can we drop this study already, consensus or not it doesnt matter. Its becoming incredibly ugly here on WUWT.
1) Claim it’s wrong
2) Claim it’s a lie
3) Try to ridicule it
Its such a bad look, I read the comments on the other threads and I mean there were like 4-5 guys explaining how the statistics worked and how it wasnt an epic lie, the rest were sucking up the misinformation about a lie. I am going to have to stop reading WUWT, it doesnt feel right anymore.”
Oflot…….to paraphrase your position:
English officer US revolutionary war: “I thay ole chap theeeth Yankies they dont fight pwoper, they wont stand up in bwightly cowered jackets in wines like ower wedcoats to be shwot at pwoperly like a swoldier shwood. I fwink I will give up thith wawer ath itth a bwit ugwy”.
Go on, piss off, nobody needs you.
I posted a comment on the Guardian about this. I basically said (paraphrase)
“I am really baffled by all this. If the science is so strong for over 10 years now then why do we need to emphasise a consensus. Why do we need surveys showing large support for AGW? I have my strong suspicions as to why but I don’t want to make people here angry.”
My comment did not make it through. If pressed I was going to tell them the following which would really have set sparks flying as the truth hurts.
Governments reducing solar and wind subsidies.
Increased use of coal in UK and 1,000 coal-fired power plants planned worldwide.
The reduced media stories about global warming.
Frakking and shale gas revolution.
Flagging public interest in global warming etc.
“Jantar says:
May 17, 2013 at 8:33 pm
Wamron says:
“They dont need o be right about anything. Consequently, proving them wrong on everything, would in itself achieve precisely nothing. “
There is no need to prove the sceptics wrong, The global temperatures following the IPCC predictions will be sufficient. But, oh dear, is it that the actual temperatures are diverging below the +/- 97% level?”
Completely misread my comment. Its the CAGW gang who dont need to prove anything. Even if we enter a new ice age, they will maintain its dues to human activity, the mdia will still repeatthat and public policy will still follow. You will never defeat them with facts. Even blatant, obvious, undeniable facts. Theonlyway to counter them is in cultural terms. This thread has been a good example of the kind of thing of which MUCH more is needed. Ridicule is a simple starting point for those who are beginners at psychological warfare (which sceptics are, at best). The case of Oflots comment illustrates the kind of attitude sceptics have shown far too much of, dont need, shouldnt emulate and had better shun if any progress is to be made.
Since ’97 the temps have flatlined 97% of the time