Talk:Global warming skeptic

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Note that clicking on at least the first 5 scientists listed shows that they have either been discredited or abandoned their position.

[edit] overlap?

Theres a lot of overlap between this and List of scientists opposing global warming consensus. Only the other article is rather better... William M. Connolley 18:47, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

There are an overwhelming number of scientists that are in agreement that global warming is mostly attributable to humans. Researching the large list of scientists in agreement would dwarf this list of skeptics by comparison.

I agree. I see no earthly reason to have two separate entries for this. We may as well combine this entry, I feel, with the "Global Warming Controversy" article--otherwise, every new piece of information and citation on these "skeptics" which is put into one article must be put into both. This is ridiculous.

Further, the title of this entry is not good. The word "Skeptic" suggests independent thought and has a positive connotation, whereas many of the people listed in this entry have a long history of being connected to oil and coal money and of distorting, fabricating, and misrepresenting data. Given the scienfic consensus, I suggest changing the entry title to "Global Warming Denialists" or "Global Warming Contrarians" and reducing the whole entry to one link to the "Global Warming Controversy" page. Who's with me? Dicksonlaprade 17:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I would support merging the page into the "Opponents of the global warming theory" section in Global warming controversy. --Nethgirb 20:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

I changed the redirect from Scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming to Global warming controversy. The former isn't really appropriate since not all GW skeptics are scientists. The latter is appropriate since it addresses global warming skepticism in general. --Nethgirb 10:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)