Weekend open thread – Attack of the Gorebots

Ric Werme
Nov 17 2012 @ur momisugly 11:53
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The warmists’ strongest argument is the one from consensus, which marginalizes dissenters as a lunatic fringe in the public mind. Our side needs an effective counter. A list of the names and affiliations-and-honors of 100 dissenting scientists would do the trick, especially if posted on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has made a good start, as it currently has a list of 35 names:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the_mainstream_scientific_assessment_of_global_warming
List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming
This article lists [living] scientists [formerly deceased scientists were included] who have made statements that conflict with the mainstream assessment of global warming as summarized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientific bodies.
Listing criteria: The scientists listed in this article have made statements since the publication of the Third Assessment Report which disagree with one or more of these 3 main conclusions. [I didn’t quote those; instead see Wikipedia’s list of five headings under which scientists’ statements are classified below for criteria.] Each scientist included in this list has published at least one peer-reviewed article in the broad field of natural sciences, although not necessarily in a field relevant to climatology. To be included on this list it is not enough for a scientist to be merely included on a petition, survey, or list. Instead, the scientist must make their own statement.
[An earlier version of that paragraph included the statement, which is still operative, “There is no requirement that their views contrary to the global warming mainstream need to have been published in peer-reviewed literature, and the majority have not.”]
1 Global warming is not occurring
2 Accuracy of IPCC climate projections is questionable
3 Global warming is primarily caused by natural processes
4 Cause of global warming is unknown
5 Global warming will not be significantly negative

Currently Wikipedia lists 35 names, down from 42 in an earlier version, which included three deceased scientists. I bet twice as many notable names could be added, many from outside the Anglosphere. I suggest that WUWT start a “Notable Dissenting Scientists Nomination Project” thread with the aim of adding them to Wikipedia’s list. Wikipedia will require a citation to each nominee’s published or posted skeptical statement, but someone other than the nominator could track it down.
Probably many names could be added by contacting notable scientists who have signed petitions or made online comments but who have not gone more formally on the record with their own quotations. They could be asked to make a post to the nomination thread (which should be accessable permanently via a tab atop each thread) stating their position in their own words. (An earlier version of Wikipedia’s article, which I captured to my disk, included short quotations from each scientist. I could restore these quotes to WUWT’s list.)
Once our side compiles enough names, two things should be done:
1. The names of prominent and/or outspoken dissenting scientists should be added to Wikipedia’s entry. (If we attempt to add every natural science PhD in the Oregon Petition, it will amount to over a thousand names, so Wikipedia might freak out and drop the whole entry. I think we should aim for no more than 100.) Here are my nominations to get it started—I think that 30 more names could be added by WUWTers within a couple of days:
R.G. Brown at Duke
David Evans
_____ Loehle
James Lovelock
Leif Svalgard (sp?)
2. A link to WUWT’s list should be added to Wikipedia’s entry, prefaced by a remark to the effect that “A longer list, containing the names of less prominent and/or less outspoken dissenting scientists, and including short comments from them and from the scientists listed above, can be found HERE [link].”
Let’s then see what feeble and/or outrageous excuse Connolley’s Crew uses to delete it–which we can then publicize.
Here are the names and affiliations as currently listed in Wikipedia, which I’ve organized in alphabetical order for nominators’ convenience:
Khabibullo Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences[16]
Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks[41]
Claude Allègre, politician; geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris)[42]
Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[17][18]
Robert C. Balling, Jr., a professor of geography at Arizona State University[43]
John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, contributor to several IPCC[44][45]
Petr Chylek, space and remote sensing sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory[46]
Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa[19]
Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology[47]
David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma[48]
Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland[20]
David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester[21]
Freeman Dyson, professor emeritus of the School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study; Fellow of the Royal Society [9]
Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University[22]
William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University[23]
William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy, Princeton University[24]
Craig D. Idso, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University and founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change [50]
Sherwood Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University[51]
William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology[25]
David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware[26]
Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences[10]
Patrick Michaels, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and retired research professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia[52]
Nils-Axel Mörner, retired head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University, former chairman of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999–2003), and author of books supporting the validity of dowsing[11]
Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa[27]
Garth Paltridge, retired chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research and retired director of the Institute of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre, visiting fellow ANU[12]
Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.[28][29]
Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of Mining Geology, the University of Adelaide.[30]
Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke University[31][32]
Tom Segalstad, head of the Geology Museum at the University of Oslo[33]
Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia[34][35][36]
Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics[37]
Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville[38]
Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London[13]
Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center[39]
Hendrik Tennekes, retired director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute [14]
Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, professor emeritus from University of Ottawa[40]
Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists[49]
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Anthony: If you like what I’ve proposed, you could post the above as an article, after suitable editing.