Slide 3 of this series.
Clearly this was an attempt to sell a consensus at a time when the movie Inconvenint Truth and the Nobel Prize had not gained the total attention of the public.
NEXT: The cherry picking of data was met with good analysis and a rebuke. However every since then it was deemed necessary to prop up the 97%, as is the case in the Cook article.
The idea of consensus on AGW claims will be analyzed in this section. What is the real data and how has the media represented it?