Dear Mr Opinion,

I don't know what mhaze's profession was/is
but if he's really an engineer as you claim then all
the more reason that he should know better
than to brush aside "YouGov," as a "survey
company". When in fact YouGov is much more than that -
it's a British international internet based research
and data analytics firm with headquarters in the
UK and operations in Europe, North America, the
Middle East and the Asia - Pacific.

His attitude does not make sense - according to
his supposed qualifications - and his troll-like behavior
directed at me even less so.

If it can be copied & pasted then it must be true.

Individual,

That depends from whom and by whom - doesn't it
old chap? (smile). Otherwise - it's all
"fake news" isn't it?

Setting the record straight, copy and paste.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYRFIs5bpY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3EPJnIAuY_NJ4tJfQ3PssJwrSRgvgAWNJtWA5lAuHhYQy0pdHs5zaEFz

Foxy wrote:

"Could you please point out where exactly did I use "the dodgy words of others" that you keep banging on about?"

Well despite the fact that you put in quotes I didn't say "the dodgy words of others". I said that the numbers in the article were dodgy and that you used the words of others:

1 Dodgy numbers. The claim was that "Almost 90% of the world believes climate change is real". That's plain wrong as I explained above. Given that the only number in the article we can verify is wrong, I have some doubt about the other numbers.

2. You directly copied whole sentences from the article and passed them off as your own. You wrote "A recent global survey on the thoughts and feelings of humans concerning climate change and its effects was recently released by YouGov, a global political
opinion and data company that has made a science of global online surveying." The article used the exact same word. You did similar things elsewhere in the post.

"You're accusing it
of being "shonky" - why?

Despite putting in quotes, I never said it was shonky. The survey, is limited and should be used with extreme caution, but not shonky. But the numbers used in the article don't align with the survey and are therefore questionable.

Its more than a little funny that you use quotes to suggest I said things I didn't say but forebear using them when lifting whole sentences from the article. I know you do it a lot. I just thought I'd call it out this time.

Again, there's nothing wrong with the survey but it, through its methodology, ignores half of the populations of three of the most populace nations on earth. So claiming that the world thinks this or that is just a misuse of the data.

And both the article and you, ignore the most important take from the survey ie that, of those surveyed, a plurality thinks man is not the main cause of climate change.

Dear Josephus,

Did you really post a link to that serial data torturer Heller?

How about someone credible at least. Perhaps a climate scientist of some description would be good.