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[Viking Coder]

Brian H wrote:
Yawn. The standard IPCC/AGW Troo Beleever canard that all opponents are shills for the oil companies.

How about discussing the referenced information I provided that dismisses his claims rather than becoming indignant & providing puerile bluster about a closing comment?

Brian H wrote:
700++ credentialed scientists who have publicly repudiated the IPCC’s methodology, structure, and conclusions

Could you please reference that claim? Pointing to a blog post (which only listed 604 rather than “more than 650”, included many economists, TV weather forecasters & was full of quote-mining from actual climate scientists) by a politician’s PR flack is not sufficient, nor credible.
More on Inhofe’s alleged list of 650 scientists

Besides, the number of scientists supporting a conclusion is irrelevant. The only relevance is the science itself. Does a list of scientists presented by the Discovery Institute prove evolution through natural selection is invalid?

Brian H wrote:
The IPCC reports were written by a tight cabal of about 52 scientists

Incorrect. There were 619 authors of the AR4 wg1. There has been one, and only one, resignation. Christopher Landsea of the U.S. NOAA AOML, resigned from the IPCC AR4 wg1, in Januaty 2005; Landsea disagrees that projected warming will lead to increased hurricane risks.

Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), working group 1: the scientific basis (‘wg1’) authors