Fred Singer and other scientists dispute this view. <!-- I need to supply some quotes from Singer and Lindzen. The IPCC is not just scientists, in fact not even mostly climatologists. It supports a pre-ordained conclusion. It ignores contrary data. -->
==False claims of "consensus"==
[[Richard Lindzen]] wrote in 1992,
:Indeed, a recent Gallup poll of climate scientists in the American Meteorological Society and in the American Geophysical Union shows that a vast majority doubts that there has been any identifiable man-caused warming to date (49 percent asserted no, 33 percent did not know, 18 percent thought some has occurred; however, among those actively involved in research and publishing frequently in peer-reviewed research journals, none believes that any man-caused global warming has been identified so far). [http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html]