On the Importance of Skepticism in a Post-Truth World

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No, not if you include sea temperatures. Those graphs that claim to show "heating" of sea temperatures are showing you joules (as you can see in the axis labels) not actually temperature.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics/Nuccitelli_OHC_Data.jpg

The trick is to change from a measurement of temperature to a measurement of energy, which looks huge due to the amount of energy water can hold versus air. The sea temperatures have risen far less than even the air temperature.

They don't want to show you that, so they trick you by showing you joules instead of degrees.

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Regarding the "majority of experts" its more sleight of hand.

You'll hear "97% of scientists" believe in catastrophic global warming caused by man. That statistic was achieved through highly dubious means.

The Doran Survey which produced it went out to 10,000 scientists, and over 3,000 responded. Doran didn't like the results, so he threw out all but 77 hand selected responses who's answers he liked. 75 out of the 77 agreed with him, which is the 97% figure. Even then, the survey only said that humans contribute to climate change, not if it was most of climate change, or that it would be bad.

Cook 2013 claimed the same number when examining papers, but Cook's team are massive partisans, and he counted any paper that didn't scream global warming was socialist hoax as "confirmation" of human caused climate change.

Finally, remember that those professional societies hold no votes and no surveys of their members to determine their positions on topics. Those are put out by a handful of the leadership group. They wouldn't dare allow an actual survey.

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