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one that matters. The other ones are just bad models, right? So I only need to know the one that works. It doesn't matter how many times Tony Heller tells me some individual scientist or some individual prediction was wrong. It's totally irrelevant. I only need to know is there one that's right? I don't need to know how many were wrong. And I don't know that. All right, I tweeted that apparently…
← Previous segment →s there been a poll of scientists? Maybe I don't qualify for your question. I mean have they polled scientists? Well yeah they've been polled at least six times I think. If you go to Wikipedia you'll see six different polls and they're all between 90, they're all 90s to 100% basically. Do you believe that's true? I believe it if you think, unless you're asking me if you want to deprogram me because I'm believing a false...
Well it looks like I'm not gonna get anybody who actually believes in the 97%. And here's why you probably should not. Even the skeptics are in that group. So if you combine the people who believe there is a problem with the people who don't and you add them together what do you get when you add all the people together? About a hundred percent.
So the way the question is formed is do you believe that humans are creating CO2 which causes warming? Pretty much every scientist will say yes. But the second question they don't ask, which is how big of a deal do you think this is? That's the part they leave out. So the reason the 97% is like the primary thing that the press reports is that it's simple. This is a part of climate science they can understand. You know they understand polar bears yes or no. 97%. Hey everybody's on the same side. Well the reason everybody's on the same side is that they literally added the skeptics and the people who believe together. If you add all the people together you're almost always getting a hundred percent. And that's why it
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happened. Now I'll just continue on this point and thank you for the call. So think about that. Now let me ask you this. The climate science is really based on, but not based on but let's say depends on, measurements. In other words there's somebody measuring the ocean. There's somebody measuring the ice. There's somebody measuring the temperature of the ocean. Somebody measuring the temperature…
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