Pie Chart

[BrilloPad]

The fact the sascretin believes in AGW (will at least when anyone who is against AGW posts he responds with "cretin HTH BIDI") makes me think it is probably bollux.

Which is a great pity as after the summer of 2006 I bought a/c and am still waiting to be smug about it.

[pjclarke]

Let's imagine he'd done it the other way around, assuming that an article doesn't agree with Global Warming if it doesn't explicitly say it does; what would the result have been? Of course, any answer is speculative, but I think this author's methodology, erm, how to put it technically, sucks.

But that is a distortion of what he actually did; the denominator was simply a keyword search result to find all climate articles, so the pie chart shows the number of studies explicitly disagreeing with AGW divided by all articles, whether pro- anti- or neutral on AGW.

I guess you could get a rough estimate of papers that explicitly underpin the dominant paradigm by counting the references in the most recent IPCC report, of which there are over 18,000, the majority from peer-reviewed literature, so even on that methodology the 24 'anti-' studies is a tiny, tiny proportion.