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Climate change ‘skeptics’ have been singing a victory song in recent months. Emboldened by this winter’s record snow, errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report, and the phony scandal they dubbed ‘ClimateGate,’ their growing clamor has taken a toll on public acceptance. According to a Gallup poll released last month, Americans are now about evenly split on whether the threat of global warming is exaggerated and whether scientists agree on its causes and dangers. This in the face of clear scientific consensus.
Ninety seven percent of climatologists agreed that climate change is real and largely man-made in a poll released last year. At least 60 major scientific organizations across the globe also concur, while not one of any repute holds an opposing opinion. (A few have not yet committed.) As to the list of 700 dissenting scientists that Senator Inhofe and other skeptics frequently cite, an analysis by the Center for Inquiry found that less than 10 percent of them were climate scientists, and only about 15 percent had ever been published in peer-reviewed climate science literature. Moreover, another four percent seemed to agree with the scientific consensus and so were, presumably, mistakenly included. One of the “scientists” turned out to be a Kentucky weatherman without a college degree..
Source: huffingtonpost.com