Quote Originally Posted by Thondalar View Post
It's bad science, and you know it. When charting a timeline for anything, you start at the beginning, not the end. You can't just pick out the part of the timeline that fits your narrative and dismiss all other related data. It's ludicrous.
If you're correct and the science, from a basic and fundamental level, is completely wrong; then where are the legitimate skeptics? Science is full of big competitive egos. It's implausible to think that they would all collude. The only thing I'm hearing from the deniers on here is more consipiracy theories. Where's the Beef?

Those who think scientists keep silent on global warming presumably because they fear the barbs of the world demonstrate a peculiar kind of paranoia, especially since what they fear largely does not exist. More prosaically they need to recall Carl Sagan’s words again because the claim that scientist don’t dare to speak out against global warming in the literature is, quite definitely, an extraordinary claim. And it doesn’t seem to stand up to even ordinary evidence.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...one-disagrees/

Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers took a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the scientist self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. Many papers captured in our literature search simply investigated an issue related to climate change without taking a position on its cause.

Our survey found that the consensus has grown slowly over time, and reached about 98% as of 2011. Our results are also consistent with several previous surveys finding a 97% consensus amongst climate experts on the human cause of global warming.

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...fclimatechange

“The public perception of a scientific consensus on [manmade warming] is a necessary element in public support for climate policy,” the study says. “However, there is a significant gap between public perception and reality, with 57% of the US public either disagreeing or unaware that scientists overwhelmingly agree that the earth is warming due to human activity.”
But Keith Kloor, a science writer for Discover, smartly argues that while closing this gap is a laudable goal, it doesn’t necessarily move the needle on public’s level of concern about the issue or their motivation to act.
“Over many years of research, we have consistently found that, on average, Americans view climate change as a threat distant in space and time–a risk that will affect far away places, other species, or future generations more than people here and now,” concludes a Yale report that Kloor cites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...g-so-what-now/