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Old 08-25-2006, 11:20 PM   #41 (permalink)
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As far as global warming, there is no proof of anything. I can find just as many climatologists as you who disagree with you.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...climate_change

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In December 2004, Science published an essay [8] by geologist and science historian Naomi Oreskes [9] that summarized a study of the scientific literature on climate change. The essay concluded that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The author analyzed 928 abstracts of papers from refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, listed with the keywords "global climate change". The abstracts were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. 75% of the abstracts were placed in the first three categories, thus either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, thus taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change; none of the abstracts disagreed with the consensus position, which the author found to be "remarkable". It was also pointed out that "authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point."
Regarding the above quote, it is possible that scientists who do not believe in man-made global climate change aren't releasing papers about their findings, but frankly, scientsts that don't produce any documented evidence are poor scientists indeed.

The only poll I've ever seen with more than 20% of scientists against the idea of man-made climate change was conducted by a Conservative group whose stated goal is to reduce regulations. Their sample group had clear political agendas, since belief in global warming seems to split along party lines in the political, if not the academic arena. (I'm just going to assume that there aren't more Democratic scientists than Republican ones, although I am only speculating.)
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