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Global Warming Science is not a democracy.

Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Global Warming Science is not a democracy.(GLOBAL WARMING FORUM)(Letter to the editor)

Article Excerpt
While certainly imperfect, the "survey" by Robinson did in fact seem to offer some screening so as to involve persons with better than average analytical thinking skills, and 31,000 is an impressive level of participation. This we must compare to the numerous flat declarations that "the science is settled" by A1 Gore and company.

Perhaps most prominently on the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) side was the 2004 essay in Science by historian Naomi Oreskes, who searched for about 928 scientific articles and found 0% (!) disagreement with the AGW proposition. That is consensus in the extreme of unanimity. Later exposed as contrived in the scope of the search and disingenuous in interpretation of the 928 papers (likely not carefully read!), this "essay" was at least as suspect as...

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