It's all in the papers!

In the movie "Contact" the President's Science Advisor, played by Bob Skerritt tells Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, that her pusuing the search for "little green men" is committing careericide and that she "...won't be published, you won't be taken seriously, and your career will be over before it's even started!"

For those of you who don't understand the sciencetific community, notoriety, or infamy, is gained through publishing your scientific finding in data in the trade journal of your scientific discipline. Then your findings are peer reviewed in which those in, and sometimes outside, your field of discipline point out the flaws of your work, or support your findings. This is where the rubber meets the road, if you're a bafoon, you will NOT be taken seriously and your career WILL end before it starts.

Recently, Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte revisited a study previously performed in 2004 by history professor Naomi Oreskes in which she examined the peer-reviewed papers published on the ISI Web of Science database between 1993 and 2003. She found a majority of papers supported a "consensus view" that humans were having at least "some" effect on global climate change.

However....(ALGORE, are you listening) when Dr. Shulte reviewed papers published from 2004-2007 hever found....

Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no "consensus."

Checkmate!

Of course, you're still going to have those believing the lies; however, you're going to have to dig a little deeper to find reputable bonified scientists to support your claims. This means, ALGORE will have to find his scientists from the streets of Berkley rather than the halls.

But let's face it, if it took five years to shit can that fraud, Ward Churchill, from the hallowed halls of the Universtity of Colorado, I don't expect a purging of dogmatic jerk off professors anytime soon.

I've linked the Inhoffe EPW Press Blog below, but I also posted a much more extensive article that appeared in, of all places, the "Hawaii Reporter" in the "Skeptic's Tool Kit" section of this page.

Article: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory

By: Michael Asher