By John Ransom
Monday, November 25, 2013
A new survey from the American Meteorological Society
contains more bad news for global warming alarmists: people who actually get
paid for accurately predicting weather are increasingly skeptical about whether
global warming is man-made or natural or whether global warming is occurring at
all.
The survey is the result of increasing tension amongst
meteorologists regarding global warming.
“There has been tension in recent years among AMS members
who hold different views on climate change,” explains the AMS in the
introduction to the new report. “Some members have expressed that their views –
which question the view that human-caused global warming was occurring – are
treated with hostility within the AMS.”
Scientists? Bullying each other? Naaaaww.
The report found that only 37% of meteorologists who did
not make a living by publishing papers supporting the theory that global
warming is caused by human activity actually think that man-made global warming
is real.
That is meteorologists who make a living predicting
weather events are the ones least likely to believe the theories created by new
found “climate science.”
The survey also found that of all meteorologists only a
bare majority supported man-made global warming theory.
48 percent did not support man-made global warming
theory.
The AMS sent out a survey to all meteorologists and got a
return of 1854 responses.
The AMS says that the study finds that the more educated
experts are about climate science, the more likely they are to believe that
global warming is man-made.
But I say that the data just proves that the more
dependent scientists are on believing global warming to be man-made in order to
make a living through publishing, the more likely they are to believe global warming
is man-made because that’s how they make their living.
Of 1821 meteorologist included in the survey, only 231
made a living publishing papers regarding man-made global warming theory. Yet
they accounted for a larger share of meteorologists who believe in man-made
global warming.
73% of scientists who publish papers regarding global
warming and climate are inclined to believe that global warming is real and
global warming is man-made.
The farther that science gets from this conflict of
interest, it seems, the more likely it is that they are disinclined to believe
global warming is man-made.
In essence, it’s as if a group surveyed the College of
Cardinals to prove the existence of God and ascribed the results to the college
members’ oversized education rather than their piety.
And all of this goes to show that the argument that there
has already been a scientific consensus reached amongst experts that global
warming is real and global warming is man-made is a political argument rather
than a scientific one.
“A substantial number of expert AMS members – 22% of the
most expert group in our sample – do not subscribe to the position that global
warming is mostly human-caused,” says the AMS. “Climate experts are not
completely homogenous in their views on global warming, just as climate
skeptics have been shown to have a variety of nuanced opinions. Any suggestion
that all those with non-majority views simply need to be ‘educated’ is inaccurate
and likely to be insulting to a substantial number of AMS members.”
Gee, ya think?
Those of us who are skeptics about global warming are
used to being marginalized, trivialized and brutalized by a tiny fraction of
people whose wallets get fat by publishing papers in support of man-made global
warming theory.
But while more and more data comes out calling into
question man-made global warming models, it’s nice to see professional
organizations start to treat skeptics with, if not exactly respect, at least
the decency accorded people accused of some heinous crime.
Because while this is progress, make no mistake they’re
still looking to prove us guilty, if necessary by reason of insanity, if in
fact they can’t muster the scientific arguments.
Which of course they can’t.
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