Where did the United Nations slogan "97% of scientists agree that humans are

causing
the warming" get their so called consensus of 97%??????

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.