Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Alarmist Survey: Scientists Allegedly Agree Human-Induced Global Warming is Real
A group of 3,146 earth scientists surveyed around the world overwhelmingly agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising, and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.

Peter Doran, University of Illinois at Chicago associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, along with former graduate student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, conducted the survey late last year.
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In trying to overcome criticism of earlier attempts to gauge the view of earth scientists on global warming and the human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the 2007 edition of the American Geological Institute's Directory of Geoscience Departments.

Experts in academia and government research centers were e-mailed invitations to participate in the on-line poll conducted by the website questionpro.com. Only those invited could participate and computer IP addresses of participants were recorded and used to prevent repeat voting.
Does cartoonist Toles completely power his own house with wind and/or solar energy?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What fools. You base your findings on an "internet survey", and you sincerely believe that only those that decided to answer the survey were the only scientists that matter, or that these 3000+ scientists among a population of 6 billion represents a "majority."

All I can say is Thank GOD for Global Warming! Else can you imagine the freezing temperatures we'd have to put up with without it?!?

I mean - good lord, 12 below 2 days ago was far lower than I cared to witness!

But at least one good thing has come out of this, Al Gore is making a ton of cash off it! Good old albert won't be going hungry anytime soon! Yippee!