[Vision2020] Logical Science: The Arnold Schwarzenegger Challenge on Climate Change Skepticism

[Ted Moffett]

http://logicalscience.blogspot.com/2007/05/arnold-challenge-arnold-schwarzenegger.html

Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said<http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/speech/5875/>
:

Well, as I said, that I believe the scientists. It is like when my child is
sick and has a huge fever, and I go to 100 doctors, and 98 doctors says this
child needs immediate medical care, and 2 say no, forget it, go home and
just relax, I go with the 98. It's as simple as that.

Well lets see if the skeptics can meet even these standards. Arnold claims
that the dissenting 2% can be ignored. Marc Morano
claims<http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&IsPrint=true>that
this list
of 12 skeptics<http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&IsPrint=true>is
just the "tip of the iceberg" and:

A more detailed and comprehensive sampling of scientists who have only
recently spoken out against climate hysteria will be forthcoming in a soon
to be released U.S. Senate report.

According to Eli
Rabett<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-many-climate-scientists-are-there.html>there
are roughly 20,000-ish climatologists that are members of the AGU.
About 5,000 of those are Europeans taking part in a mostly American club.
There are no stats on worldwide climatologists yet. But as Professor Eli
also says: "if you ain't a member of the AGU you ain't no damn climate
scientist in the US". Well applying Arnold's ignorable 2% to 20,000 AGU
members means we can ignore, at a bare minimum, 400 climate change skeptics
worldwide. So will Marc Morano be able to come meet Arnold's standards? With
more than 388 missing AGU skeptics to locate and an exiguous amount of
anti-consensus papers in peer review from
1993-2003<http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/consensus.htm#Journals>,
my guess is a big fat no.

Source:
Council on Foreign Relations Board
Meeting<http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/speech/5875/>,
Thursday, 04/12/2007
Marc Morano – Marc_Morano at EPW.Senate.Gov - 9:14 PM ET Climate Momentum
Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming -
Now Skeptics<http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad-494b-dccb00b51a12&IsPrint=true>Growing
Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New
Research
Rabett Run, How many climate scientists are there
mommy?<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-many-climate-scientists-are-there.html>,
Friday, November 10, 2006
Science, BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER:The Scientific Consensus on Climate
Change<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5702/1686?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=oreskes&searchid=1103210845409_5389&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&fdate=10/1/1995&tdate=12/31/2004>,
Naomi Oreskes
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