jlf1961
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You know, before the Republican party climbed into the pocket of Big Oil and began to preach about the flaws with climate change science, President Richard M. Nixon (REPUBLICAN) was the first politician putting Global Warming on the political agenda was Richard Nixon 1969[2]. Nixon wanted environmental topics (as acid rain and greenhouse effect) to be treated by a third and civil pillar of NATO. The reaction of the NATO allies was lukewarm but the initiative gained impact in the civil field.Political alignment and global warming
And a funny thing about the 31000 plus scientists who signed the petition against climate change, 9,029 PhD; 7,157 MS; 2,586 MD and DVM; and 12,715 BS or equivalent academic degrees. Qualifications of Signers
When the vast majority of climatologists are in agreement on climate change, and then there are people, MANY OF WHOM, are not climatologists try to detract from that finding, it lends a lot of weight to credibility.
So the statement 31000 scientists is flawed. The majority of these scientists are not in the fields dealing with climate, and therefore not true peers of the climatology science.
Then there is this little statement:
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Although preliminary estimates from published literature and expert surveys suggest striking agreement among climate scientists on the tenets of anthropogenic climate change (ACC), the American public expresses substantial doubt about both the anthropogenic cause and the level of scientific agreement underpinning ACC. A broad analysis of the climate scientist community itself, the distribution of credibility of dissenting researchers relative to agreeing researchers, and the level of agreement among top climate experts has not been conducted and would inform future ACC discussions. Here, we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed here support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers. Expert credibility in climate change
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