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That makes my point even more effectively. You cant have a scientific community populated by people who will consider AGW dissenters as disreputable and then say AGW is obviously real because there are no reputable scientists who dissent against it. It's circular.
Not that the assertions are even TRUE.
What I've seen personally.
- In reading journal articles a great many have near the front a "Glory be to God" sentence or two, in which the authors affirm the TRUEY TRUTHY of CLIMATE CHANGE. Then they get down to business and show hypothesis, data, method, results. Usually this has almost no tangible relation to the "big questions" such as "Is man warming the planet up when he makes pancakes and fries bacon?"
- In talking with real scientists, a very very few are Alarmist but there are those. Most have zero interest in Global Warming and consider it a political subject, not scientific. If prodded they will voice an opinion usually only in a narrow field in which they are very much an expert.