If climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, climate sensitivity would be on negative watch."Things journalists should know," according to this article, include the useful couplet:
(1) The scary scenarios are based on models; and
(2) The models don't work.Useful fact number three is that the "97%" consensus figure often thrown out in AGW debate resulted from an online survey of 10,257 earth scientists conducted by two researchers, to which 3,146 scientists replied, of which the responses of 77 were considered valid for inclusion.
My own informal survey yielded a 98% consensus in favor of my views. So I have that going for me.
