has today dealt a body blow to global warming skeptics by
releasing findings exposing the lack of credibility of
dissenting scientists challenging man-made global warming CFI's
Office of Public Policy undertook an assessment of the 687
people listed as "dissenting scientists" in the January 2009
version of the 'Inhofe list'. Their conclusions: - Slightly
fewer than 10 percent could be identified as climate scientists.
- Approximately 15 percent published in the recognizable
refereed literature on subjects related to climate science. -
Approximately 80 percent clearly had no refereed publication
record on climate science at all. - Approximately 4 percent
appeared to favor the current IPCC-2007 consensus and should not
have been on the list. Here (pdf) is a spreadsheet providing a
first-order analysis of the 687 alledged "dissenting scientists"
in the 2009 version.