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This thread began with a link to a chat by Naomi Oreskes. I need to bring up the point that she published a paper in Science 03 Dec 2004, in which she claimed to have reviewed all 928 papers written on climate change from 1993-2003 and found that 75% conclude explicitly or implicitly that we are causing global warming and the other "25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change". Paper is at http:// www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
Unfortunately for Naomi, Benny Pieser of Moores U in UK, yes a skeptic and an anthropologist to boot, re-ran her data and found glaring errors. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/NationalPost.htm
His findings after reviewing the same 928 papers and 200 more he found were that only 13 papers (<2%) explicitly agreed with anthropogenic causes. When taken to task, Oreskes agreed that "there was indeed a serious mistake in the Science essay."
Take it for what it's worth, but I find little faith in anyone, regardless of their credentials, passing off information that just isn't so.