text: are conservatives interested in knowing the truth about global warming or not? i just posted the following link;  http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686  it describes a systematic study of all published research by climatologists in the field of climate change for a ten year period. they wanted to know how many of the 928 papers disagreed with an international statement as follows;  "the consensus of scientific opinion is that earth's climate is being affected by human activities: "human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. ... [m]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations"  they found zero out of 928 papers disagreed.  when i posted it conservatives said; http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=akyrc7jz8dcrb.hcp5rd0frsy6ix?qid=20061102112730aaftn9w  are they just not interested in knowing the truth or just plain dumb?  and scorbore i checked your links; one is an editorial by a some of us are interested in the whole truth. 928 papers you think that is even close to all the papers written on the subject that is probably only one years worth. and notice your own quote says "most of the warming" and "is likely" not exactly words you use when you have a proven fact. when i was in college in the 80's we where taught that emissions where leading to an ice age. global cooling was the concern maybe that is why a large precentage of americans don't believe in global warming to many theories have been thrown out. i read papers on global warming and i wiegh them against other facts i don't buy it. claude allegre, a french scientist who supported the global warming theory 20 years ago and was once a supporter of the kyoto accords, recently came forward and said it now appears to him that the theory is wrong. other scientist put him down and said he "was once respectable". how do you explain everyones rush to close out any debate. you talk about conservatives but they are not they ones running around saying the debate is over and falsifying data( the hockey stick graph) how can a scientist at the forefront of your cause defect and you call me ignorant and uninformed. are you interested in the truth? or are you more interested in convincing people there is no debate so they don't seek differing opinions.