The Irrelevant Climate Change 'Consensus' - American Thinker

The Irrelevant Climate Change 'Consensus' - American Thinker
"A new “peer-reviewed” paper has been released from Cornell University titled “Greater than 99% Consensus on Human Caused Climate Change in the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature.”
...To further confound the aforementioned issues with the study and its authors, the entire focus of the study is based on the flawed premise that consensus matters, or should even be sought.

...Even world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein recognized the fallacy of consensus when it is applied to science.

• When the Nazi Party of Germany decided they didn’t like Einstein because he was Jewish, they set about to discredit him by publishing One Hundred Authors Against Einstein in 1931. In total, 121 authors were identified as opponents to Einstein’s special relativity theory. Einstein, one step ahead of them all, is said to have riposted, “It would not have required one hundred authors to prove me wrong; one would have been enough.”

...Science cannot necessarily provide us with a foolproof answer to the exact effects that global warming may have on our planet, but one thing is certain: science is not a popularity contest.
The study released today only further cements that consensus is completely meaningless as a means of establishing proof...Read all.