[quote]Supporting Information
Anderegg et al. 10.1073/pnas.1003187107
SI Materials and Methods
We compiled a database of 1,372 climate researchers and classified
each researcher as either convinced by the evidence (CE)
for anthropogenic climate change or unconvinced by the evidence
(UE) for ACC. We compiled these CE researchers comprehensively
(i.e., all names listed) from the following lists: IPCC
AR4 Working Group I Contributors (coordinating lead authors,
lead authors, and contributing authors; 619 names listed), 2007
Bali Declaration (212 signers listed), Canadian Meteorological
and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 2006 statement (120 names
listed), CMOS 2008 statement (130 names listed), and 37 signers
of open letter protesting The Great Global Warming Swindle film
errors. After removing duplicate names across these lists, we had
a total of 903 names.
We define UE researchers as those who have signed reputable
statements strongly dissenting from the views of the IPCC. We
compiled UE names comprehensively from the following 12 lists:
1992 statement from the Science and Environmental Policy
Project (46 names), 1995 Leipzig Declaration (80 names), 2002
letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien (30 names),
2003 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin (46 names),
2006 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (61
names), 2007 letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (100
names), 2007 TV film The Great Global Warming Swindle interviewees
(17 names), NIPCC: 2008 Heartland Institute document
“Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate," ed. S.
Fred Singer (24 listed contributors), 2008 Manhattan Declaration
from a conference in New York City (206 names listed as
qualified experts), 2009 newspaper ad by the Cato Institute
challenging President Obama’s stance on climate change (115
signers), 2009 Heartland Institute document “Climate Change
Reconsidered: 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (NIPCC)” (36 authors), and 2009 letter to the
American Physical Society (61 names). After removing duplicate
names across these lists, we had a total of 472 names. Links to
source documents are available at eecg.utoronto.ca/
∼prall/climate/list_sources.html.
Anderegg[/quote]
So the largest group that was asked to provide an opinion on this was the IPCC report writers? and this is your “gotcha” moment. Are you sure that you want to go there? I note the presences of similar government symposia/panels in the next several positions. Would we like to reopen this discussion again or would you like to admit that your cited research is merely remarketed “findings?” Shall we revisit why the IPCC has been criticized so heavily? emailgate? climategate? let me know… lots new on the subject…