[troutman]

The Herald is allowing The Friends of Science to provide much comic relief in the letters section recently:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technol...139/story.html

Warming stopped naturally before Kyoto was ever implemented.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Un...134/story.html

Len Maier, president of Friends of Science, has written of a very curious incident concerning scientific consensus on the subject of global warming. He tells of an unnamed professor from an unnamed U.S. university who sent a questionnaire to 10,257 American earth scientists asking them to state if they believe that climate is warming and if humans are the cause.

Only 3,146 even bothered to respond, and of these, our unnamed professor "disqualified" all but 77. Seventy-five respondents said yes. This, Maier concludes, proves that only 75 of 10,275 of these scientists believe in global warming. What it actually proves is that Maier, although a friend of science, has not had any scientific methodology rub off on him.