I just read on the Internets that Global Warming is a Hoax!

[DetlefK]

6. That man is in no way a scientist. A scientist would have provided sources for claims.

I look at his rantings and I wait for something tangible to come up. I wait for him to come to the point. I see mysterious hints that are just left hanging in the text. I see claim after claim after claim, but never some source cited to back them up.

That's not how scientists operate, that's not how they think and that's not how a scientist would write a text.

I'm a scientist and that's what they hammer inside your mind from the very beginning: Always footnotes. Whether you give a talk or a poster-presentation or write a paper, there is one thing that always has to be there and it has to be EXACT: the references.
What are your own claims?
What have you read somewhere else?
Where have you read it?
How can I, the reader, find this document?


For example:
"As The Wall Street Journal reported, “The assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction.”
When further review was done, it was discovered that a mere 1% of scientists believe human activity is causing most of the climate change."

As the Wall Street Journal reported????????? Which issue??? Which journalist???
And he claims to have been a scientist for 20 years now??????????????



Ridiculous.