What happen to the great consensus of man-made global warming?

Question

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As more those who understand speak out when are we going to question the idea of man-made global warming?

How about a serious debate before Gore has us move into caves while he keeps his life sytle?

Or are we going to say just because it is politically popular to say it must be true?

Answer 1

I guess if you declare the debate over, it doesn't make the other side just go away. No matter what Gore says they can't take away debate.

Answer 2

The consensus never existed. There has always been a healthy debate about this theory.

In 2007, a number of peer-reviewed papers were published showing that AGW will not be catastrophic or is otherwise flawed. I am referring to the papers by Spencer, Schwartz, Chylek, Pielke and Loehle among others. These papers have changed many the minds of many scientists around the world.

Even the Washington Post has to admit the number of skeptical scientists is growing.

Answer 3

Nothing hapened to the scientific consensus. The reality of man-madeglobal warming isproven fact. What you have here is some right-wing senator putting some fake articles produced by the oil companies intothe Congressional Record. And the so-called"skeptics" who don't have enough educationtoknow thedifference, swollowthescam hook, line, andsinker. LOL!

PS--no one is going to waste any time helping these crackpots pretend there isa "debate," serious orotherwise.

Answer 4

Make no mistake, the report came out of Senator Inhofe's office, not the Senate committee itself, as a "consensus" among scientists that are skeptics of AGW.

This is a guy who received the “Lifetime Service Award” from the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.

I think you are grasping at straws. He just compiled the few straws out there.

I bet we could find 400 "scientists" that don't agree with the theory of relativity either.

Gore doesn't want you to move into a cave, that is your misconception.

Answer 5

Going by the way of global cooling from 25 years ago. Now that these scientists have spoken more and more will. The warmers led by Gore will all look like fools.

Answer 6

There's still a consensus. Look at all the fields these 400 scientists came from.

"The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; oceanography; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology."

These 400 scientists represent less than 1% of the total number of scientists in their respective fields.

On top of that, many of those fields have little to do with climate science. Plus many of these scientists are just disputing one aspect of the theory, which does not undermine the full anthropogenic global warming theory.

Answer 7

It's still there.

There are always a few "skeptics". There are people (and even some scientists) who say the Earth is 6000 years old.

This is not a political issue.

And this is still true:

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists. I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

NASA's Gavin Schmidt

Senator Inhofe is not a credible source.