Analysis of claimed ‘97% consensus’: ‘The vast majority [of studies] fall into the Impacts and Mitigation categories’ — ‘Many of these do not back up Cook’s assertion that human activity is very likely causing most of the current global warming’
Excerpt: 'At the most, about 700 papers written over 20 years that endorse AGW. And, as we have already seen, many of these do not back up Cook’s assertion that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW...Of course, the Cook survey was never intended to be a serious piece of work, but simply a PR stunt. It was designed for headlines, such as these from Reuters.'...these papers look at the impact of global warming, or potential impact of any future warming...engineers looking into Carbon Capture technology are not qualified to say what is causing global warming. Furthermore, having been given grants for their research, they are hardly likely to turn around and say AGW is a non-existent problem...The authors of the vast majority of these papers are neither qualified to comment on the causes of past global warming, or how much warming might occur in future. To claim otherwise is totally misleading... Of course, the Cook survey was never intended to be a serious piece of work, but simply a PR stunt. It was designed for headlines, such as these from Reuters.'
