Researcher turns up heat on global warming skeptics

[struggle4progress]

UIC | Finds most scientists believe it's real despite Antarctica study
January 26, 2009
BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter/[e-mail]

... But after seeing his research quoted time and time again by the likes of conservative pundit Ann Coulter -- who used it to claim there was still much disagreement among scientists as to whether global warming was a problem -- <University of Illinois at Chicago polar researcher Peter Doran> crafted another study.

This one, newly published in Eos, the American Geophysical Union newspaper, found that among the scientists who study the Earth, there is virtually no debate: 90 percent believe global warming is real, and 80 percent believe it's human-caused.

Doran's survey of nearly 3,200 such scientists around the world is the most comprehensive one ever completed.

The only apparent doubters? Petroleum geologists: Just 47 percent of them agreed people have caused global warming ...

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/1397168,CST-NWS-warm26.article

[Political Heretic]

1. We already knew this. The debate begins is on how serious the impact of global warming will be

When you get to that question, I believe the agreement among scientists falls sharply - ranging from those who believe it will be extreme doom to those who believe the impact will be less extreme.