Global Temperatures have NOTHING to do with CO2

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Rath said:
@Sqrl. You quote Prof. Reiter as though he is some sort of authority. He studies medical entomology, not the climate.

I think you really are ignorant of the current scientific opinion on climate change, no major scientific bodies now actively deny anthropogenic climate change and only a few do not hold the positive opinion that it is happening. There are some dissenting views but they are most certainly a minority view rather than the dominant view you make it out to be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

Read through that to get an idea of the scientific consensus on this issue.

So you didn't understand my point at all?

I wasn't quoting him as an authority on climate change at all.  I was quoting him as someone who has dealt with the IPCC as an expert in his field...to rebutt your ill-concieved notion that the IPCC is truly scientific.

As for my being ignorant...I find this comical. I have done a tremendous amount of research on this issue and  I'm aware of the people who do and do not support the idea and you are the one who is woefully missinformed if you think 1) There is a consensus among top scientists of any sort (in regards to AGW) and 2) that a consensus has any bearing on science.  Facts and facts alone are what science is about. 

edit: wanted to be careful about overstating knowledge...particularly with my schedule preventing me from doing as much reading as I'd like in the last few weeks.

One of those facts I posted earlier and nobody has addressed, now is that because my argument was ignorant or those debating me are?  I try not to assume what level of knowledge people have but this discussion has occurred so many times now and every single time I get someone who tries to CONSENSUS CONSENSUS me to death and every time I say "great if the consensus is there then lets have the debate and you should trounce me"...none of them ever do.

In fact look up global warming debates (expert debates, not forum debates) and you will find that AGW proponents have a penchant for losing....and not just a little more than half...but pretty much every single one of them.