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Also, I don't care if the number is 90% or 97% or 75%, the point is that it's a strong majority who are concerned because they trust the experts (climate scientists) who largely agree on this issue.

I actually agree that the numbers don't really matter, but I suspect that's for different reasons than you have. For example, Galileo was DECIDEDLY in the minority when he first released his conclusions. And we could have made this same argument back then, but even stronger: "99.9% of scientists agree that Galileo is WRONG!"

I don't feel that a majority by itself = "the correct view." The majority of people, scientists included, are bogged down by so much of their own emotional garbage that they can't accurately observe much of anything. Besides, it's not like it's particularly hard to get a degree in the subject. Time consuming, maybe, but certainly not like "every random climatologist" is part of some elite group -- most people of only-slightly-higher-than-average intelligence would be able to join that group if they're willing to sacrifice a few years of their lives. As with everything, there are those at the top, those at the bottom -- and a great many *decidedly average* climatologists. Whether or not "most of them agree" doesn't actually mean much. Don't you agree?

Anyway, you had previously asked for a scientific article that suggested we shouldn't worry about global warming. Here's a peer-reviewed scientific paper that suggests the IPCC is far from the mark:

http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/steve/pubs/HeatCapacity.pdf

Washington DC – An abundance of new peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and data error discoveries in the last several months has prompted scientists to declare that fear of catastrophic man-made global warming “bites the dust” and the scientific underpinnings for alarm may be “falling apart.” The latest study to cast doubt on climate fears finds that even a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would not have the previously predicted dire impacts on global temperatures. This new study is not unique, as a host of recent peer-reviewed studies have cast a chill on global warming fears.

“Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming bites the dust,” declared astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson after reviewing the new study which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another scientist said the peer-reviewed study overturned “in one fell swoop” the climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore. The study entitled “Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate System,” was authored by Brookhaven National Lab scientist Stephen Schwartz.

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“As far as I can say, all the people who end up with 2 or even 3 Celsius degrees for the climate sensitivity are just playing the children's game to scare each other, as [MIT climate scientist] Richard Lindzen says, by making artificial biased assumptions about positive feedbacks. There is no reasonable, balanced, and self-consistent work that would lead to such a relatively high sensitivity,” Motl concluded.

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.c...5d0842fed8