Here is a recent University of Illinois study that debunks the false claims of lack of scientific consensus made by global warming deniers:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf This study shows that 97% of climate scientists, intimately familiar with the data, and 82% of all atmospheric and geoscientists agree on major findings regarding global warming. Another survey done by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Pew Research Center demonstrates that this is also the case with 84% of all scientists. Please see the link below: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/0709pew.shtml The following paragraph, in particular, gets to the heart of the problem we face, and why I keep cautioning folks here to be skeptical of news reports in the lay press: QUOTE Fully 85% of scientists see the public's lack of scientific knowledge as a major problem for science, and about three-quarters (76%) say a major problem for science is that news reports fail to distinguish between findings that are well-founded and those that are not. UNQUOTE Cheers, Santosh --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mario Goveia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Scientists are not supposed to go along with the lead > steers in the herd. A falsely claimed "consensus" that > hundreds of climate scientists disagree with is not an > acceptable standard when the political policy implications > are incredibly ludicrous and unlikely to have the desired > effect while destroying the major economies in the world, > thus achieving extreme socialism's failed objectives through > the back door of extreme environmentalism. >
