"The debate on global warming is over." - Al Gore, 2006
NO 'Consensus' on "Man-Made" Global Warming (Popular Technology)
"Let's
be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with
consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the
contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which
means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to
the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is
reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great
precisely because they broke with the consensus..."
- Michael Crichton, A.B. Anthropology, M.D. Harvard
19,000 Scientists declare that "man-made" global warming is a lie with no scientific basis whatsoever (OISM)
4000 Scientists sign 'The Heidelberg Appeal' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares (Heartland Institute)
400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007 (US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works)
170 Scientists, Economists and Theologians sign An Open Letter to the Signers of 'Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action' (Cownwall Alliance)
105 Scientists sign 'The Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
100 Scientists sign an 'Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations' (National Post, Canada)
77 Skeptical Scientists (Business and Media Institute)
60 Scientists call on Harper to revisit the science of global warming (Financial Post, Canada)
47 Scientists sign the 'Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming' (Science & Environmental Policy Project)
41 Scientists debunk global warming alert (The Daily Telegraph, UK)
35 Skeptical Scientists, 'The Deniers' (National Post, Canada)
Inconvenient Fact: ...only 51 individuals signed the IPCC Report released on February 2, 2007 (Institute for Canadian Values)
Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears (Hudson Institute)
Essay Claiming 'Scientific Consensus' for Global Warming is Ridiculed (CNSNews)
Scientists Against Man-Made Global Warming (Wikipedia)
Editorials:
A Treaty Built on Hot Air, Not Scientific Consensus (S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. Physics, The Wall Street Journal)
Climate consensus and the end of science (National Post, Canada)
Consensus is Nonsensus in Scientific Matters (Michael R. Fox, Ph.D. Physical Chemistry)
Don't Believe the Hype - Al Gore is wrong. There's no "consensus" on global warming (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Global warming "consensus" continues to melt away (James Inhofe, B.A. Economics, Power Magazine)
Global Warming's Senseless Consensus (Steve Milloy, B.A. Natural Sciences, M.S. Health Sciences)
No consensus on IPCC's level of ignorance (John R. Christy, Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, BBC)
Proliferation of Climate Scepticism in Europe (TCSDaily)
Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus (Financial Times, UK)
The Dangers of Consensus Science (National Post, Canada)
They call this a consensus? (Financial Post, Canada)
Papers:
"Consensus"? What "Consensus"? Among Climate Scientists, The Debate Is Not Over (Science & Public Policy Institute)
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus (Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Surveys:
Copenhagen Consensus 2004 (Copenhagen Consensus)
| QUOTE (Copenhagen Consensus) |
| A
panel of economic experts, comprising eight of the world’s most
distinguished economists [...] looked at three proposals, including the
Kyoto Protocol, for dealing with climate change by reducing emissions
of carbon. The expert panel regarded all three proposals as having
costs that were likely to exceed the benefits. |
| QUOTE (PR Newswire) |
| Sixty-one
percent said that there is no such thing as an ideal climate. [...]
[only] 20% of those surveyed said that human activity is the principal
driver of climate change. |
| QUOTE (The Pew Research Center) |
| Americans
generally agree that the earth is getting warmer, but there is less
consensus about the cause of global warming or what should be done
about it. Roughly four-in-ten (41%) believe human activity such as
burning fossil fuels is causing global warming, but just as many say
either that warming has been caused by natural patterns in the earth's
environment (21%), or that there is no solid evidence of global warming
(20%). |
| QUOTE (Heartland Institute) |
| A
survey of 530 climate scientists from 27 different countries determined
there is no consensus regarding the causes of the modern warming
period, how reliable predictions of future temperatures can be, and
whether future global warming would be harmful or beneficial.
Assertions that “the debate is over” are certainly not supported by the
survey results. Two-thirds of the scientists surveyed (65.9 percent)
disagreed rising CO2 is causing climate change and 72.6% did not agree
we could predict what the climate will do 100 years from now. |
RE: “The scientific consensus on climate change” ( Benny Peiser, The letter Science Magazine refused to publish)
| QUOTE (Benny Peiser) |
| Oreskes
claims to have analysed 928 abstracts she found listed on the ISI
database using the keywords "climate change". However, a search on the
ISI database using the keywords "climate change" for the years 1993 -
2003 reveals that almost 12,000 papers were published during the decade
in question. [...] ...she admitted that there was indeed a serious
mistake in her Science essay. According to Oreskes, her study was not
based on the keywords "climate change," but on "global climate change"
[yet her paper is clearly titled: The scientific consensus on "climate
change" not "global climate change"] Her use of three keywords instead
of two reduced the list of peer reviewed publications by one order of
magnitude (on the UK's ISI databank the keyword search "global climate
change" comes up with 1247 documents) [...] The results of my analysis
contradict Oreskes' findings and essentially falsify her study: Of all
1117 abstracts, only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'.
[...] 34 abstracts reject or doubt the view that human activities are
the main drivers of the "the observed warming over the last 50 years".
44 abstracts focus on natural factors of global climate change." |
Benny Peiser's paper has NOT been refuted.
Propaganda sites such as Grist took words from a conversation with
Benny Peiser out of context in a useless attempt to defend Oreskes. The
fact remains that Oreskes deliberately and deceptively called a paper
"The scientific consensus on climate change" while using the search term " global climate change" thus leaving out 11,000 papers! Oreskes cleary cherry picked papers.
This alone debunks her study. Even still as a direct criticism, every
part of Peiser's study stands except that when you criticize only
Oreskes' cherry picked papers (928 not 12,000) the 34 papers Peiser
found doubting AGW may not have been included in Oreskes' paper. No
kidding! So he withdrew only this as a direct criticism of her paper. The rest of his criticism remains such as only 13 (1%) explicitly endorse the 'consensus view'.
Removing the 34 papers is irrelevant as Peiser's study cleary shows
that no consensus exists and Oreskes was not looking at all the papers
(928 out of 12,000). Conclusion: Oreske's paper is debunked and worthless.
Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory ( DailyTech)
| QUOTE (DailyTech) |
| Medical
researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte recently updated this research.
Using the same database and search terms as Oreskes, he examined all
papers published from 2004 to February 2007. [...] Of 528 total papers
on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the
consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the
consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%.
However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the
largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or
reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus." In fact of all
papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single
one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic
results. |
Survey of State Climate Experts Casts Doubt on Link Between Human Activity and Global Warming (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Other Non "Consensus" Scientists:
Copernicus, Darwin, Einstein, Faraday, Galileo, Newton, Pasteur
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