Re: [asa] World sets ocean temperature record

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Cameron Wybrow <wybrowc@sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Unless you can point out flaws in the methods employed by the survey, it
> looks as if you are simply ignoring important evidence that the "consensus"
> is no longer there. This makes your indignant protest and hard-line position
> seem much less credible. (Please do not reply to this point unless your
> reply eschews all polemics and rhetoric and consists entirely of a factual
> and methodological response to the survey.)
>

It has a flaw you can run a Mack truck through. Here's the headline:

Fewer than half of climate scientists endorse anthropogenic global
warming<http://www.uncommondescent.com/off-topic/fewer-than-half-of-climate-scientists-endorse-anthropogenic-global-warming/>
Here's the data of the papers surveyed:

7% explicit endorsement of AGW
45% implicit endorsement of AGW
6% reject AGW
48% silent on AGW

This commits the logical fallacy of arguing from silence.

Rich Blinne
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Received on Sun Aug 23 21:15:26 2009