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Old 10-13-08, 06:51   #177 (permalink)
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Re: Obama or McCain?

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Originally Posted by kellyinkc View Post
"You're in la la land. "Junk science", except that it is pretty much accepted by EVERY reputable scientist on the planet."

Hmmm . Really?

Signers A - Global Warming Petition Project
The scientific consensus is clearly expressed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme, IPCC's purpose is to evaluate the state of climate science as a basis for informed policy action, primarily on the basis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature. In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: "Human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. ... [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations".

BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change -- Oreskes 306 (5702): 1686 -- Science

Oh, and BTW, your "petition" took 10 years to compile and is signed by a bunch of "scientists" who have nothing to do with studying climate change. On a global scale, 30,000 signatures probably represents less than 1% of the world's scientists.