So, where did this 97% figure come from?

From a study by a professor in Australia named John Cook at the University of

Queensland,

And what this study purported to do was review the abstracts of 11,000 climate
science articles. Abstracts?

Well ...No one's going to read 11,000 climate articles. Even a whole team of
graduate students is not going to read through 11,000 science articles. So they
read the abstracts.

The abstract is always that one paragraph summary at the head of any academic
journal article.

Here's the abstract to the Cook papers first sentence.

"We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on anthropogenic global

warming."

66%--two thirds of the papers express no opinion on human-caused global warming.

32.6% percent endorsed anthropogenic global warming. 0.7% percent rejected it

entirely and 0.3% were uncertain.

Okay.

So that means a third of those papers had an opinion on human-caused global

warming. So, the next sentence says this:

"Among abstracts expressing a position on human-caused global warming, 97.1%

endorse the consensus positions that humans are causing the warming."

Somehow this has become 97% of all scientists, when it's 97% of a third of
scientists.

Or, you might put it this way.

66% of scientists publishing

in the field have expressed no firm opinion on the matter. Or, Among all the
scientists who agree with the consensus........are all the scientists who agree
with the consensus.

That would be an adequate way of saying it.

Some of the articles turned out to be not really about

climate science at all. One article that was billed as a science article was about
U.S. media coverage of climate change issues.

Strangely, in those 11,000 papers, there's not a single

one from Richard Lindzen of M.I.T. He's the most prominent member of the climate
science community, who has been publishing on the subject since 1961. None of his
papers were included...he isnt saying what they want him to say...
And yet, this phrase ...97% of scientists agree. Or believe in, right? And this
banner splattered all over YouTube and Facebook?

It's clear to me...that the climate establishment has become as intolerant as any
department of gender studies on any college campus, and for much the same reason.
Its BULLSHIT!

While you dont have to share that sentiment do so understanding that... the only
difference between YOU and ME???

Im the one who cared to look