So tell me, who has more at stake in this 'global warming' contest of opinions? Is it the roughly 95% of climate scientists who are living large due to the continuing interest in the subject, bulging research grants, etc. to the tune of perhaps tens of millions of dollars, or the corporate gods of carbon with, let's see... maybe a few TRILLION in reserves and infrastructure? Hmm...I wonder.

Whatever the argument or debate is on the causes of global warming is, at this point and time, totally irrelevant as suppose to what to do and how to help those in many Pacific countries that are literally submerging under the tides... and no one know for sure when the tides pattern would reverse or stabilize.

This article is the last gasp of the goofy anti-science cult whose only faith is misplaced at the foot of the debunked man-made global warming hoax and its manufactured "hockey stick" data. Hey Matt Bewig, your next article should decry the number of Santa deniers who refuse to accept the consensus of 7000 4 year olds that reindeer will show up on your roof on Christmas Eve. It would have more credibility.

HAHAHAHA! This article is hilariously stupid. While those desperate to show "global warming" that before was "a coming ice age" that is now morphed into "climate change" move into new arguments to desperately hold onto their grants and give blow jobs to tax raising politicians, the "deniers of the deniers" show desperation. Now that people realize that the three trees out of 100,000 that "prove" global warming is a cherry picked poop sandwich that we won't bite into, the morons that wish to fulfill the "tax it to fix it" plan (which we know to be the "tax it to enrich our friends and supportersplan") are attempting to switch sides. They figure that denying that there are deniers will work. Problem is the truth doesn't give a rat's behind what you "want". It still remains the truth and the truth is this: GLOBAL WARMING FIXES ARE MONEY MAKING SCHEMES BY A CROOKED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYING CROOKED SCIENTISTS SUCKING ON GOVERMENT TEET (GRANTS). To all of them, the reasonable and honorable seekers of the truth say this: SCREW YOU! TAX YOURSELVES AND STFU!

No-one is denying that the world has warmed by 0.6 degrees in the last Century, although it is fair to point out that without Climate Scientists measuring such a small change, no-one would have noticed. It is also reasonable to ask, if CO2 is driving climate change, why the warming stalled in 1998 and the temperature has not increased for the last 15 years, in spite of record increases in CO2 output over the same period. I know the 2001-2010 decade was warmer than the previous 1991-2000 decade, but that does not negate the fact that warming has halted; it just hasn't fallen to pre-warming levels. There is no evidence that extreme weather events are on the rise - studies show Hurricanes, tornadoes and droughts have actually dropped in frequency since 1950, it is just that there are more people living in harm's way now. Warming would in theory result in higher evaporation rates, leading to more cloud formation and therefore more rain, so a warmer world would be a wetter world, and would have longer growing seasons in most parts of the world. It is hard to see why this should necessarily lead to droughts and famines. War, such as in Darfur, is caused by tribal and religious hatred, not by global warming, but War does cause famine, and the breakdown of infrastructure does result in countries be far less able to cope will droughts and crop failures. In the same way, deaths due to heat waves would be more than made up by less deaths due to freezing due to milder winters in a warming world. Hysteria about an acknowledged but so far insignificant warming does not seem to be justified by the facts. The fact that 97% of climate scientists agree that human action is warming the planet just says they agree that the 0.6 degree warming is probably accurate, and probably caused by the combustion of fossil fuels. So far so good, but it does NOT mean 97% of scientists believe that the World is on the cusp of a so-called "Tipping Point" which will see rapid disastrous warming, with doomsday outcomes for the environment and human civilisation. Most indicators are that the warming so far has been beneficial to the ecosystem, with accelerated plant growth due to warmer, longer growing seasons and the beneficial effect of CO2 as a plant food. The case for a draconian World Government to stifle and dismantle our industrial civilisation in the name of Carbon reduction has NOT yet been made, and it seems doubtful it ever will. No-one should ever believe anything Al Gore says on any topic - Global Warming is no exception.

Ian, the desperate denier... Not many scientists are skeptical of obvious phenomena like gravity that the earth is round. I'd like to see the list of "7000" peer reviewed articles. Though deniers live in a fact free universe populated by grand conspiricies of scientists and thousands of reporters...

I thought that scientists were supposed to be skeptical. Why do you accuse them of "denying" when it's their job to doubt? Perhaps if more scientists were independent from the $4 billion IPCC (UN) grant funding then there would be more real science to report. Science is not about consensus and never has been. Why not do a survey of all the peer reviewed articles that are not published in the media - to remove media controlled bias. I can point you to over 7000 of them that are all by skeptics and have never been published in the media.