{"id":496,"date":"2007-11-08T13:19:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T18:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/11\/did-we-call-it-or-what\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T22:17:45","slug":"did-we-call-it-or-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/11\/did-we-call-it-or-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Did we call it or what"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steve Milloy has let fly<\/a> with the results of his twisted survey of climate scientists, pretty much as we expected<\/a>. It’s not worth analyzing in any great depth, I’m sure we all have better ways to spend our time, but one tidbit jumped out at me. <\/p>\n

The first question of the survey was <\/p>\n

Which best describes the reason(s) for climate change?<\/i>. <\/p>\n

The survey offered a choice between human activity or natural variation, or some combination of the two. How to answer this? Before a few decades ago, natural variability was the right answer, but since about 1970, human activity has taken over. <\/p>\n

I emailed Milloy with my concern about the indeterminate time scope of the question, and he replied<\/p>\n

\nHi David,<\/p>\n

Present tense verbs imply ongoing climate change.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

but now from the press release, <\/p>\n

Another notable result is that an astounding 20% of those surveyed said that human activity is the principal driver of climate change.<\/p>\n

“So was there no climate change before mankind?” Milloy asked.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest is more of the same. Garbage in, trash talk out. OK, back to work, enough time wasted on this. <\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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