It should come as no surprise that if someone were to spend the time and effort to compile stats on what real, honest-to-Pete climate scientists think about the non-debate over how anthropogenic climate change is, s/he would find that there’s a whole lot less “debate” among the people who really know what the hell they’re talking about. Luckily, someone actually did that thankless exercise, as pointed out by James Hoggan in New Stanford Study Exposes Lack of Credibility and Expertise Among Climate Skeptics:
A study by Stanford University researchers examining expert credibility in climate change has confirmed that climate skeptics and contrarians within the scientific community comprise at best 3 percent of the field, and are “vastly overshadowed” in expertise by their colleagues who agree that manmade climate change is real.
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Examining a group of 1,372 climate researchers, their publications and the number of times their work is cited by peers in related studies, the Stanford researchers found that:
1) 97-98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of [man-made climate change] outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and 2) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of [man-made climate change] are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.”
The authors found that:
“the expertise and prominence, two integral components of overall expert credibility, of climate researchers convinced by the evidence of [anthropogenic climate change] vastly overshadows that of the climate change skeptics and contrarians.”
You click through to read more, or you can skip right to the knee-jerk reaction from the deniers, as in Roger Pielke Jr. crying wolf. Again.. How could Pielke Jr. cry wolf over something this cut and dried? Hint: He resorts to misrepresentations, in the form of conflating what the report and articles about it said. In other words, it’s yet more trash straight out of the Denier Handbook that the deniersphere will no doubt repeat endlessly, despite being, you know, wrong.
