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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (46759)	1/26/2014 3:29:39 PM
From: Eric	Respond to of 86355

Shocking... simply shocking! :)

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (46759)	1/26/2014 10:00:52 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

Startling Number of Scientific Papers Disputed Human-Caused Global Warming Last Year Yes, that startling number was 1 out of 2258 papers by 9136 authors.... Who the hell wrote that headline...? The pie chart above says it all. Despite searching just over a year's worth of the scientific literature on global warming and climate change, one man's exhaustive search could turn up only a single paper that dissented from the consensus view on the human causes of global warming. That search was made by James Powell, a retired geology professor and former college president turned science historian who also served for 12 years on the National Science Board, to which he was appointed by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Powell conducted the search using the Web of Science, an online database of the peer-reviewed scientific literature on virtually any topic. Plugging in terms like "global warming" and "global climate change," he first searched all the way back to 1991. "If scientists allegedly disagree about it ... then we should find the evidence for it in the peer-reviewed literature," he explained. “It’s a little bit like what people say in a courtroom: You can say anything that you can get away with, but when it comes right down to it what really counts is the evidence." Where's the Evidence?The tally for that search: Nearly 14,000 papers that supported human causes behind global warming (chiefly from burning fossil fuels over the past century), and just 24 that rejected human causes. weather.com