And now we know the underlying reason..

[Dill]

(02-12-2017, 04:44 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I'll admit that this started out as a half-drunken shit post, solely for the purpose of stirring up some amusement.

However, I found a lengthy list of Scientists, both dead and live, who disagree with the Climate Change theory in one facet or another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming

There are plenty more articles, I just put a few out there to show.

Hmmmm. That list doesn't seem so lengthy as all that. Here are two reasons why.

1. Did you notice the graphic with your wiki article? It shows how anomalous are the contrarian views of the signers of your list of scientists opposing the scientific consensus on global warming.

2. If you start going down that list, the oddities begin to appear, starting with the first name, David Bellamy, who came out for global warming, then changed his mind in 2004 based upon stats from a Science which was apparently a hoax. His own credibility destroyed, he has backed out of the climate debate.

Lennart Bengtson, the second signer, appears to have also retracted an initial claim that climate scientists were covering up evidence.

Third name, Piers Corbyn, has a Masters degree in Astrophysics and runs a business for predicting changes in weather, so not really climate scientist, but a participant in Heartland Institute conferences--funded by Big Oil.  etc. etc. etc.

The email scandal referred to in your links to British papers was rather well known in the U.S. It was heavily investigated in the UK, with same result as voter fraud scandals in the U.S.--nothing there.