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Pielke Jr. argues like this: “The notion of consensus-as-truth has been operationalized in various forms: journalistic “fact checkers,” academic “misinformation” researchers, and content moderation on social media...

There has been a long-running effort to force social media outlets to censor messages that those in power don’t like.  Operating under the false flag of countering hate, the misnamed not-for-profit (in the UK and UK) Center...

By Jo Nova A new paper tries to clean up the chicken entrail decrees of Mark Lynas (and earlier of John Cook) and concludes that their methodology is so bad, a 99.85% consensus could just as easily have been 32%.

"The conclusion does not follow from the data": Israeli study trashes extreme global warming consensus claim.

By Jo Nova It’s just another climate denier with a Nobel Prize in Physics… John Clauser, Nobel Prize winner.

A new poll of scientists conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University found that only 59 percent of respondents think global climate change will cause “significant harm” to the “living conditions for…

Humans are likely causing some warming, but substantial scientific disagreement exists on whether there will be significant impacts ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (November 8, 2022) – A new poll of scientists…

This actually satisfies a psychological need for many people.

The new Climate Consensus is just a junk keyword survey.

We believe that the city fathers who withdrew endorsement of our meeting were simply following the persuasive power of the AGW consensus advocates. It is doubtful that they, not being experts, discerned any advantage to disputing...

by Geoffrey Weiss and Claude Roessiger The so-called debate about the causes and effects of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a notable irony. Rather than a forum for free disputation, AGW has in recent years become the...

The consensus building process acts to amplify personal biases, and marginalizes disagreement from either a majority opinion or the opinion of the loudest or most motivated person in the room...

John Cook has released a new video which attacks a climate skeptic straw man, to try to bolster his 97% climate consensus claim.

In the ongoing effort to clearly summarize their position, CLINTEL has published a Scientific Manifesto in the form of ten propositions. These specifically address, among other things, the role of National Academies in protecting...

Depressing. A consensus based on nothing much, still lasted three generations And it’s not dead yet: Groups like the American Heart Association, UCSF Guidelines, VicHealth, etc are all still advising that people avoid...