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01/06/2009 13:56:53
 
 
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30/05/2009 08:04:32
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>>>>What is scientific about the global warming studies? It is merely conjecture by a group of renegade quasi-scientists looking for funding for their research.
>>>
>>>Hardly. Virtual all Earth Scientists think the planet is warming and that human activity has something to do with it:
>>>
>>>http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
>>>
>>>The gist of this study is that while only 52% of Americans think there's consensus about global warming among experts, in fact in this study of Earth scientists, 90% agreed that there is global warming and 82% say that
>>>human activity is a controlling factor. Fewer than 10% said humans have no role in global warming (the rest choose "I'm not sure")
>>>
>>>Full disclosure: this was a self-selecting study. Invitations weresent to 10,000+ identified Earth scientists (essentially, all the Earth Scientists in the US); about 30% chose to participate. It was done in a way that kept participants anonymous, so no issues with facing embarrassment.
>>>
>>>The real issue is that providing both sides of an issue has been so beaten into the media that they've presented this topic as if there is real scientific disagreement, which is not the case.
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>I find it amusing to imply scientific fact based upon a non-scientific survey.
>
>The point of the survey isn't scientific fact; it's whether there's controversy on this subject in the relevant scientific community. There is not.
>
>Tamar

From a brief glance I could see that the "study" has an inherent bias in the respondents :
"The database was built from Keane and Martinez [2007], which lists all geosciences faculty at reporting academic institutions, along with researchers at state geologic surveys associated with local universities, and researchers at U.S. federal research facilities (e.g., U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and NOAA (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) facilities; U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories; and so forth)"

Notice how all the invited participants are in the public sector with no private sector scientists invited.

This says nothing of the leading nature of the questions, the polling method nor the availability and/or accuracy of the respondents.

This is clearly not a valid scientific study upon which to base any assumption. Hence my amusement.

>>As always, here are my favorites:
>>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7915
>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118972683557627104.html
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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
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