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New John Cook 97% Consensus Climate Change Video
John Cook has released a new video which attacks a climate skeptic straw man, to try to bolster his 97% climate consensus claim.
A Reply to Cook and Oreskes on Climate Science Consensus
By Warren Pearce, , Reiner Grundmann, Mike Hulme, Sujatha Raman, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw and Judith Tsouvalis Published in: Environmental Communication In their replies to our paper (Pearce et al., 2017), both Cook (2017) and…
Consensus=Nonsensus – Reviewing Cook et al (2016)
Michelle Stirling writes: A critical review of the most recent Cook et al (2016) consensus study. There can’t be much more consensus than getting all the lead consensus study authors…
John Cook is cooking up more 97% consensus, while two papers refute his statistical sleights of hand
We’ve had the climate wars, now we have the consensus wars, and it appears Cook’s side and his publisher aren’t playing fair with the numbers, or with the review/rebuttal process.…
The Cook '97% consensus' paper, exposed by new book for the fraud that it really is
I don’t like to use the word “fraud”, and I can’t recall if I’ve ever used it in a title. In this case it is warranted. Brandon Shollenberger writes of…
Another attempt at Cooking settling consensus on climate change
From the “Cooking up another 97% consensus” department and Purdue University: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University-led survey of nearly 700 scientists from non-climate disciplines shows that more than…
Richard Tol’s Excellent Summary of the Flaws in Cook et al. (2013) – The Infamous 97% Consensus Paper
Guest Post by Bob Tisdale It’s been almost 2 years since Cook et al. (2013) Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature was published. If you’re…
A psychologist's scathing review of John Cook's '97% consensus' nonsensus paper
Psychologist José Duarte writes: The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic…
The disagreement over what defines 'endorsment of AGW' by Cook et al. is revealed in raters remarks, and it sure isn't a 97% consensus
The Cook ratings document contains some incredible remarks, one of which is documented here. According to it, “the training period in the initial stages of the rating period” covered more…
Richard Tol Fights back – with an article in the Guardian showing that Cook's 97% consensus is actually 'nonsensus'
Consensus is irrelevant in science. There are plenty of examples in history where everyone agreed and everyone was wrong. While I admit to being quite surprised they’d allow him equal…
BUSTED: Tol takes on Cook's '97% consensus' claim with a re-analysis, showing the claim is 'unfounded'
A new paper by Dr. Richard Tol published today in ScienceDirect, journal of Energy Policy, shows that the Cook et al. paper claiming that there is a 97% consensus among…
An Open Letter puts the University of Queensland in a dilemma over John Cook's '97% consensus' paper
Rud Istvan, sends this open letter along for publication and writes: This puts UQ on the horns of a terrible dilemma. The preferred political response is always to sweep such a…
University of Queensland threatens lawsuit over use of Cook's '97% consensus' data for a scientific rebuttal
Wow, just wow. Not only have they just invoked the Streisand effect, they threw some gasoline on it to boot. It’s all part of the Climate McCarthyism on display this…
More pear-shaped trouble for John Cook's '97% consensus'
Readers may recall the post John Cook’s 97% consensus claim is about to go ‘pear-shaped’. This is an update to that, in two parts. First is the introduction, and the…
John Cook's 97% consensus claim is about to go 'pear-shaped'
pear shaped (slang) A British expression used to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong with a person’s plans, most commonly in the phrase “It’s all gone pear shaped.”The OED…
Cooks '97% consensus' disproven by a new peer reviewed paper showing major math errors
UPDATE: While this paper (a rebuttal) has been accepted, another paper by Cook and Nuccitelli has been flat out rejected by the journal Earth System Dynamics. See update below. –…
Cook's 97% climate consensus paper crumbles upon examination
Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook Page Ugh. Do you remember the “97% consensus”, which even Obama tweeted? Turns out the authors don’t want to reveal their data. It has…
What Is Cook’s Consensus?
By Paul Homewood John Cook’s little paper, “Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature” has attracted much attention in recent weeks. Yesterday an essay by Brandon…
Self admitted cyber thief Peter Gleick is still on the IOP board that approved the Cook 97% consensus paper
Tonight, I’m surprised to find that Gleick, who stole documents under a false identity, and then likely forged a fake memo sent to MSM outlets is apparently still on the…
Quote of the Week – marketing the consensus before it's '97% Cooked'
In the SkS forum discussion about how to create this 97% consensus paper, there was a lot of discussion about how to market it. As far as methodology, quality control,…
Cook's 97% consensus study falsely classifies scientists' papers according to the scientists that published them
UPDATE: More inconsistency: Cook survey included 10 of my 122 eligible papers. 5/10 were rated incorrectly. 4/5 were rated as endorse rather than neutral. — Richard Tol (@RichardTol) May 22,…
Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims 'consensus' on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW
You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into…
A Conversation with Google Bard on the Consensus
By Andy May It turns out it is trivially easy to get Google’s AI product “Bard” to admit it is biased about climate change. Others, like Jonathan Cohler have managed…
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