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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
And what has 97% of scientists got to do with it? What are the areas of expertise of these scientists? Atre the other 3% all MAD scientsts?
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To answer your question, apart from pointing out that 97% is a lot more than 3% and the burden is on you to explain why you support the view of the 3%, the fact of the matter is that even the 3% are dominated by people who are being paid by special interests to create junk science. One of the leading and most-cited climate deniers, Wei-Hock Soon, was recently exposed as having lied about receiving money from various oil companies and the Koch brothers (American billionaires who fund candidates and force them to withdraw support from alternative energy). It turns out he has accepted over $1.2 million to drum up doubt about man-made climate change. He accepted this money for publishing "scientific" papers in journals that have rules against publishing papers from people who accept money, and he fraudulently hid that fact from the journals.
Here's an article on the subject. So no, the 3% aren't "mad scientists," they are shills for vested interests that perceive their financial interests as being threatened by the well-accepted scientific consensus about climate change. And it's precisely that kind of shilling that has taken in otherwise intelligent people like you who ultimately, faced with the facts, have nothing to say but "don't worry, be happy."