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Originally Posted by Ted Pearson  “Just over half – 54 per cent – of the 80 international specialists in climate science who took part in our survey agreed that the situation is now so dire…”
Wow, I am now completely convinced of significant effects of anthropogenic global warming.  ....Out of this huge group of alarmists, only 43 think we have a problem that needs to be addressed. |
you have completely misrepresented the quote. The 54% refers to those scientists who think the situation so dire that we need to artificially manipulate the climate to counter the effects of CO2.
Of the remainder "About 35 per cent of respondents disagreed with the need for a "plan B", arguing that it would distract from the main objective of cutting CO2 emissions, with the remaining 11 per cent saying that they did not know whether a geoengineering strategy is needed or not."
So it's not that only 54% of scientists believe 'the problem needs to be addressed' as you state. They're simply disagreeing about
how to address it.
Matt