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Originally Posted by delayjf
97% is debatable, but assuming that figure is true, did the entire 97% conduct their own independent research, or are they just rubber stamping someone else's work?
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It is more than one study.
The 97% consensus on global warming
https://www.skepticalscience.com/glo...-consensus.htm
Science achieves a consensus when scientists stop arguing. When a question is first asked – like ‘what would happen if we put a load more CO2 in the atmosphere?’ – there may be many hypotheses about cause and effect. Over a period of time, each idea is tested and retested – the processes of the scientific method – because all scientists know that reputation and kudos go to those who find the right answer (and everyone else becomes an irrelevant footnote in the history of science). Nearly all hypotheses will fall by the wayside during this testing period, because only one is going to answer the question properly, without leaving all kinds of odd dangling bits that don’t quite add up. Bad theories are usually rather untidy.
