Dems, GOP cherry-pick facts when discussing climate change | Washington Guardian
...That's why Obama's Organization for Action group and Rep. Chris Stewart win the Whopper of the Week, a distinction given out by the Washington Guardian to examples of half-truths and miscues from leaders in Washington.
Stewart, R-Utah, the recently elected Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Environment, wrote an April editorial in The Salt Lake Tribune questioning what affect humans are having on their environment.
"There is also uncertainty regarding to what degree man is to blame for global warming," he wrote. "However, the claim that 98 percent of scientists agree that humans are the singular driver of climate change has been repeatedly discounted. This oft-cited statistic is based on an online survey with a sample size of only 77 people, and the survey didn’t even ask to what degree humans contribute to climate change.”
But Stewart is being very selective when referring to where the statistic came from. The "survey" he mentions is actually a small component of a much larger study. The on state he cited did indeed just cover 77 climate scientists. Stewart, however, chose to ignore the larger study by the University of Chicago and American Geophysical Union, which found 82 percent of scientists believe humans are responsible for the rapid rise in climate change.
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I haven't had a math class in years but as I remember it 98 is not equal to 82. That's like lying and getting caught. Then coming up with a slightly more believable number. Sort of like Maxwell Smart - "Would you believe... 82?"
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