Scientific Consensus of the Non-Scientists

I happened across an article from last July at LiveScience.com that presents twelve viewpoints on "Global Warming."

The interviewed individuals include several professors, some scientists, and a former vice-president. As I read, I discovered that the individuals with climate science backgrounds tended to have differing opinions about "Global Warming" than, say, the psychology professor.

Here is a list of their qualifications, in order of believability based on background:

1. Hurricane expert and Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University.
2. Professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. Professor emeritus at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University.
4. Professor of Natural Resources, Virginia Tech, State Climatologist for Virginia.
5. Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
6. Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago.
7. Associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.
8. Professor of geography at the University of California in Berkeley.
9. Associate professor of history and Director of the Program in Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
10. Senior research scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University.
11. Former vice-president.
12. Professor of psychology at Harvard University.

1. The hurricane expert has been studying this stuff for decades. He's extremely skeptical of those who say humans are causing global warming. His main point is that the world heats and cools and heats and cools and it's natural.

2. The meteorology professor bashes the press and politicians for alarmism and for trying to justify costly Enviromentalist policies.

3. The professor emeretius says that climate change is partly caused by humans, but "its importance has been grossly exaggerated," and then he goes on to complain about all the other ills of civilization that are being ignored.

Skip down to #9, the history professor: "Many people have the impresson that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest." After reading the words of the above three scientists, you'd think he would be agreeing with them, but no. He continues, "We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it."

You gotta believe him. After all, he's a professor of history.

I won't even bother to mention what the politician and psychologist say. I'm sure you can guess.