"Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus."
Did you reading compensation fail u Keynes? In other words, of all the papers on climate change (the subject in question) that reached a conclusion, 97.2% supported the conclusion that climate change is man made. 2.8% did not. Not all studies express a comprehensive opinion, which is something you seem to have glossed over.
"gloosed over" is what happens when 66.4% of the subject matter doesnt conform to the assumption so you ignore it.
point 1: there has been a minor increase in the mean average temp globally (not the mean, just the average)
point 2: there has been a considerable increase in co2 levels globally
point 3: there has as yet been no causal link established between the two
thus this does not lead us to the conclusion that humans did it
i realize you feel ways about things, and those feelings are super important to you, but this does not make your feelings important to me.
66.4% of the researchers in this META-STUDY (the least useful type of study) did not feel confident to link human activity with a small short term rise in temps.
97% of the 32% minority who were willing to rush forward and make claims were making the popular claim.
considering the "study" was just a boolean search of the abstracts (the premise and conclusion for politicians and newsreaders) and NOT actual research or experimentation, means the citation is worthless.
it doesnt say what the "authors" wish it to say, and is based solely on the cliff notes version of other researchers with no examination of the validity of the data they were google mining.