Are most scientists liberals?

Question

Many global warming deniers have claimed that global warming is a giant liberal hoax. For that to be true, you would need virtually all scientists (who provide the evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming) to be in on the hoax. Thus most scientists must be liberals.

However, a question was recently posed asking which political parties religious fundamentals and scientists tend to join, and most conservatives said that there are as many conservative scientists as liberal scientists.

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So which is it?

Answer 1

I'm astonished that so many people equate global warming to a political dogma!

Are most scientists liberals? I don't know.....I DO know that most scientists agree that global warming is a serious threat to our environment.

Are most scientists atheists? I don't know....I DO know that most scientists tend to subscribe to Darwin's theory of evolution rather than believe in the idea of creationism.

The scientific community builds its beliefs on facts and research, not on their political or religious beliefs.
If the preponderance of the scientific community says global warming is an issue we need to take much more seriously, then I would listen to what they have to say, regardless of their political, religious, cultural or sexual persuasions. -RKO- 11/27/07

Answer 2

It takes some brains to be a scientist or engineer or possibly a physician, nurse or only approximately something. All it takes to be a baby-kisser is money, mouth and aura and probably a splash playacting, all of which could be extremely lacking in a greater severe guy or woman. i don't be attentive to of any liberals making relaxing of creationists. I even have prevalent an incredible variety of them that have been only the different. in spite of everything that's an incredible vast universe obtainable and no you will completely or perhaps heavily answer the way it got here into being. there is often a question on the tip as to how did the atom grow to be.

Answer 3

I believe it is 50/50. But the hoax here is not so much global warming as the panic it would create would result in the most massive tranfer of wealth to those who already have a lot of it!

The Leftist elite! All you have to do is follow the money trail and it takes you right to the door of Al Gore, who is invested heavily in businesses supporting global warming for making laws that would require the rest of us to buy "green products" that only they can supply for the first three years once once mandatory regulations are in place!

These are the same people who didn't like George Bush's prescription drug plan because it made it ILLEGAL to negotiate for lower prices!

You would either have to be blind or just not want to see the liberal hypocrisy in this!

At the same time it's hard to not believe that all the emissions we are putting into the atmosphere will not have some effect on our climate!

I like Willie Nelson for making us aware of Biodiesel!
I use biodiesel exclusively because of the benefits of having a USA homegrown fuel and because biodiesel puts out less than 1/5th the pollutants of fossil fuels!

This is proof that the free market is the best place for such remedy to take place because mandatory regulations are being introduced because of greed, not for the health of the planet and civilisation!

Which is a real shame because there is justifiable concern that overpopulation and greenhouse gasses are going to cause things to change.

Answer 4

19,000 people signed the Oregon Petition saying that global warming doesn't exists.

The petition had a covering letter from Frederick Seitz, who is a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. and an attached article supporting the petition. Seitz' six paragraph letter described the article as "an eight page review of information on the subject of 'global warming'." The senior author of the article was Arthur B. Robinson, a biochemist. The second and third authors were Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, astrophysicists and prominent global warming skeptics. The fourth and final author was Zachary W. Robinson, Arthur Robinson's 21-year-old son.

The article states that "over the past two decades, when CO2 levels have been at their highest, global average temperatures have actually cooled slightly" .

Answer 5

The truth is that most scientists don't follow politics and couldn't be less concerned about politics. Scientists are a different breed altogether, I have more than a few of them in my family - 8, if I count my first cousins. There's a mixture of Dems and Repubs among those scientists in my family, but in the last Presidential Election only 2 of them even made it to the polls. The others "forgot" it was Election Day lol. That's how much attention they pay to politics.

Answer 6

I know a few scientists, environmentalists and horticulturists.

I have yet to hear a favorable comment about Bush from any of them.

I don't know if that really answers your question but it clears my mind on the issue.

One friend is a professor of Earth sciences and shows "An Inconvenient Truth" to her class at the beginning of every quarter.

A family member is a horticulturist and has submitted her garden journal to many publications (helping in a collective effort) to show the correlation of temperature to pollution levels.

Answer 7

No. Scientists are largely apolitical. However, as the IPCC website states, the IPCC, in stating its constitutents, clearly delineates between "governments" and "scientists," giving the "governments" authority over the IPCC's major activities. Thus, regardless of the apolitical stance of "scientists," the "governments," which stand to gain from new carbon taxes and other forms of increased regulation, trump the science and promote their own agendas.

Answer 8

I think there is a fair balance. You are misinformed about the 'hoax' bit. Scientists agree that warming has been going on for 10,000 years or so. The 'hoax' is that man is responsible and should therefore be taxed.

Al Gore and his collaborators perpetrate this hoax in part to generate revenue for Gore's "Generation Investment Management Corporation". Look at this carefully and think of what he is really trying to achieve.

Answer 9

Really depends on which science you are talking about. From my exposure to them, plus the famous ones, they tend to be not really interested in politics, since it is politicians from both sides who keep interfering with there work.

Answer 10

Scientists are by nature very conservative.
They prove everything before they publish, many times over.
They don't have a political view, only one of whether the information is factual.