[Stoves] Jamaican cooking (Crispin Pemberton-Pigott) (Richard Stanley)

Crispin Pemberton-Pigott crispinpigott at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 14:23:37 CDT 2011


Dear Xavier

 

I will be brief, but something must be said because it affects project
funding. You make some good points. One worth following up is this :

 

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>That is his opinion and he has very little to support it, though lots of

> supporters, in my view. There are many others around with different
opinions 

 

On the contrary, he has hundreds (thousands?) of studies at his disposal.
The vast majority of the scientific community agreed on climate change
caused by anthropic actions. And in different disciplines.

Two different studies found out 97% of the scientists interviewed agreed on
climate change caused by anthropic action:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/06/scientists-
overwhelmingly-believe-in-man-made-climate-change/1

http://stats.org/stories/2008/global_warming_survey_apr23_08.html 

 

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This (internet) survey is typical of the current state of affairs. The '97%'
turns out to be 75 out of 77 people who responded favourably to a study that
initially included many thousands of people (10,257 to be exact). When the
result from over 3000 of them was very different from what was expected
(i.e. the number who supported the postulate was quite low)  the surveyors
repeatedly reduced the number of respondents using different criteria until
there were only 77 left. Of these, 75 responded in the affirmative. So, yes,
they surveyed thousands of scientists, but only 77 were included in the
final number. This is often referred to as 'post-normal science'. In fact
the question they were asked was not the one you have above.

 

You can read about it at : 

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/97-of-climate-scientists-agree
-that-the-urban-heat-island-effect-impacts-gisstemp/

 

and

 

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/04/weather-channel-and-weather-com-the-su
rvey-says%E2%80%A6/

 

Now imagine that your stove programme funding requires this level of deceit
to get funded. And the deceit is uncovered ? Then what ? We used to have to
show actual commercial viability to get funding for a proposed stove
project. 

 

Regards

Crispin

 

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