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n May, Last Week
Tonight host John Oliver attempted to visually demonstrate what a true debate
on climate change should look like.
Instead of bringing out one expert on either side of the
issue, Oliver brought on set 97 scientists who support evidence that humans are
causing global warming to argue with three climate skeptics—“a statistically
representative climate change debate,” he said.
The sketch was based on the “climate consensus,” the notion
that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is occurring
and that humans are part of the problem.
But if Oliver really wanted to be up-to-date on his stats,
he would have put 99.99 scientists on one side of the desk.
That’s according to James L. Powell, director of the
National Physical Sciences Consortium, who reviewed more than 24,000
peer-reviewed scientific articles on climate change published between 2013 and
2014.
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