I can't believe you tossed me this softball. I've actually shot it down twice before. A article from the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine! Great stuff. Here is what
Sourcewatch has to say about the OISM.
This is the Kook (Robinson) that published a bogus report saying that 31,000 scientists were opposed to global warming. It turns out that many on the list were totally bogus (Micheal Fox, Dr, Gerri Halliwell, etc,), most were not scientists (some were actually businesses), and very few were climatologists that could be considered experts on the subject and some of them claimed to no longer support the petition, since it's thesis has been rewritten at least seven times.
This is a much better pitch if only the numbers could survive scientific scrutiny. But it is impossible to tell from this article, since both his numbered references and his footnote references are not present for us to check out. No footnotes and no bibliography. Conveniently we cannot check out his sources.
You see, Mr. Gulachenski is an electrical engineer, not a climatologist and he has published a number of popular articles critical of the IPCC report. He has not yet published any peer-reviewed, substantiated articles in a scientific Journal. So I find his credibility low, although I would like to investigate his sources validity. Challenges to the consensus are scientifically important as long as they are valid.
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