| xenophon13 said: @steven787 did you look at the link that is a petition by 19000 scientist who do not believe that greenhouse emission have an effect on pollution? Check it out, there is no consensus by scientist |
And that's what, five, maybe ten percent of the scientists that might be involved in that area of study? You throw out a number as if it has some sort of significance when it doesn't. If that's 19,000 people out of everyone with a Science related PhD, that's a miniscule number. If it's out of only environment scinetists, it's a very small number. It only looks like a big number if you ignore the fact that many thousands of scientists enter their field of choice every year.
Your statistic, sir, has absolutely no meaning. The international scientific community is outspoken on the matter, and there is certainly a concensus on the matter. If there weren't, then the majority of the world's nations would not have signed on to the Kyoto protocols. You cite a small number of hold-outs and only mention their numbers to support your misguided opinion that there is not a concensus. Do you really expect that "19000 scientists" is such a large portion of the total pool that there cannot be a consensus in spite of those 19000 individuals? Do you really think anyone is so stupid that they could be convinced that 19000 people in a field as broad as "science" (since no specialty was cited) is enough to break up a concensus? This year the world will likely see more new scientists graduating from college than that piddling 19000 number.
The worst part, for your side, is that even if that stat could have narrowed it down to the people specifically involved with the issue, which it didn't, it still wouldn't be enough people to compare favorably to the people who say that global warming is real.
You do not have the right to never be offended.
