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Hi Rom,
Unfortunately, when I hit Reply with Quote, it's not working on your post.
You may want to Google responses to Cook's 97% Consensus paper on the internet, where it has been criticised for various reasons, like,
a. that the so called skeptical scientists are all actually in agreement that CO2 will increase earth's temperature, so that their papers have wound up being included as part of the "Consensus", and
b. issues have been raised with the methodology, and
c. that the results are not reproducible by anybody, since Cook refuses to release half the data citing confidentiality - despite the persons asking to see the data saying that they are willing to sign confidentiality agreements.
But things took a strange turn. As reported in The Australian 17 March 2013, University of Queensland is threatening to sue one person, Brandon Schollenberger who wanted to investigate Cook's methodology and data, and who actually found the supposedly confidential data on the internet - available to anyone, as it wasn't password protected.
As far as I know, science is meant to be something where you put everything in your findings out for everyone to peruse and dissect. Not something that you start threatening to sue over, when one attempts to do just that.
As for Climate Change being a dead issue, the trade union/Association of which I am a member was the then Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia, now Professionals Australia. Most of it's members are scientists and engineers. Some five years or so ago, the Association surveyed its members on the issue of Anthropological Global Warming, and found them evenly split at exactly 50% believing it and 50% being skeptical.
This result was way out of whack with similar surveys of the general public, who at that time had a far greater number of believers. And that was before Climategate 1 and 2 happened. Quite frankly, if at the height of Global Warming hype and before Climategate, a majority of scientists and engineers - who are trade union members - couldn't be convinced, I don't think it's going to happen any time soon, especially given the Hiatus.
Regards,
Renato
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