It is very risky for any group of people to put all of their eggs into the basket of an extremely small minority of folks in the scientific community. Al Gore might be an blowhard (and a groper!), but in the end, that doesn’t matter; science always wins.
Scientific realities are not defined by party or ideological affiliations. If the conservative movement hitches its wagon to a poor hunch that ultimately becomes The Flat Earth Society, the conservative movement will cease to exist, and that is not good.
This fellow explains the danger quite well: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/science+Global+warming+deniers+liability+conservative+cause/3284292/story.html
Your linked article is crap. . . Just like anthropogenic global warming. I'd use stronger words but this is a family forum.
It's claim of 3% denialist scientists is based on the IPCC article using statistics based on a hand picked universe of "scientists" who were selected for their adherence to AGW, and then polled about whether they "believed" in AGW. The only "surprise" I see is that there were ANY deniers in the group at all!
The facts are that there have always been a majority of real scientists, many of them meteorologists and climatologists, who have questioned the evidence behind even the existence of Global Warming, and even more who have questioned the anthropogenic nature of it. I speak as one who was taking honors courses in college in the late 60s and early 70s in Anthropogenic Global Cooling. . . Leading to another ice age.
Looking at your ‘oh so scant’ posting history.... quite obvious you are a bleeding heart lib... hope that global warming scam doesn’t pan out for you.