Why Jon Huntsman is Wrong on Global Warming

If I were up on the stage I would have told Jon that he is wrong its not 98% its only 97% of Climate Scientists that still believe in Global Warming. He is just quoting this study that surveyed 1,372 known working climate researchers and found 97% of them still believe in global warming. But this is a misleading study, I think, because its just about Climate Scientists. That's like asking Acorn members if they're Democrats.

By Elmer Beauregard

During last night's Republican Presidential Debate at the Reagan Libary, the subject of Global Warming came up and this is what Jon Hunstman had to say on the subject.

"When you make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate scientists have said, ... we can't run from science,"

If I were up on the stage I would have told Jon that he is wrong, its not 98% its only 97% of Climate Scientists that still believe in Global Warming. He is just misquoting this study that surveyed 1,372 known working climate researchers and found 97% of them still believe in global warming. But this is a misleading study in my opinion because its just about Climate Scientists. That's like asking Acorn members if they're Democrats.
When in truth about 96% of all scientists are skeptical, for instance, did you know that 66% of Meteorologists DON'T believe in man-made Global Warming. There is a a website called The Petition Project which has 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition saying that they don't believe in man-made global warming.
So let's do the math 97% of 1,372 is 1,330 who still believe in global warming compared to 31,487 who don't. That's only 1 out 24 or 4% of scientists who still believe in global warming. Plus, there is a new peer-reviewed study that just came out by the NIPCC called Climate Change Reconsidered which debunks a lot of of myths on global warming.

Ever hear of Google?
So Jon, maybe as a presidential candidate instead of just listening to CNN to form your opinions, maybe you should do a little research for yourself. If you did you would learn that 96% of scientist DON'T believe in Global Warming.