Question: Where does the 97% of climate scientists come from? Answer: [View all]
The 97% figure is not antidotal. The percentage is listed on the NASA site ( http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ ).
Therefore change deniers have to believe at 97% of scientific professionals who have dedicated their lives to understanding of the physical universe (often initiated in adolescence) can be coerced into subverting their basic intentions/beliefs for grants and tenure, . . . or climate-change deniers have to believe NASA is "in the tank" as well.
True skeptics can be won over with this realization.
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NASA's language:
"Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position."
Which is followed by a list of such organizations with links to their relevant statements.
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That is, they'd really have to be "in the tank" to go to all this trouble.
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