socio-economic site? is that a new dogwhistle?

My heart sank as I saw your references to known ‘sky-dragon slayers’. The people you choose to follow are conspiracy theorists. See http://www.desmogblog.com/john-o-sullivan and http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-science-by-letter-in-not-science

Not only that, but the grandiose-sounding ‘Principia Scientific International’ is a front run by John O’Sullivan to publish hard core climate denial; so hardcore that even most fake sceptics think it’s run by nutters. Even Lord Monckton described O’Sullivan as “confused and scientifically illiterate”. For once I find myself agreeing with him. Don’t you? http://www.desmogblog.com/principia-scientific-international

Last, I’m guessing you publish links to NASA to somehow legitimise your comment. Here’s what NASA really says about CO2: http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

NASA Study Proves Carbon Dioxide Cools
H. Schreuder & J. O’Sullivan Atmosphere Principia Scientific International ^ March 26, 2013
NASA’s Langley Research Center has collated data proving that “greenhouse gases” actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun.CO2 and NO are natural thermostats,” says James Russell from Hampton University, who was one of the lead investigators for the groundbreaking SABER study. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/…

– among those people who accept money from a lobbygroup whose purpose it is to oppose the dissemination of knowledge.

Which of these is a stronger consensus
-among researchers who actually do the work?
-among the general public?
-among legislators?

Please define “level of confidence”.

“Andrew Lohmann says:
January 27, 2013 at 6:16 pm
I’d like to step back just a second and address the nature of science in general.
When we are capable of conducting experiments, then we don’t really have to be concerned (as much) about “scientific consensus.” We have experimental data to support our conclusions.
However, there are vast swaths of scientific investigation that do not lend themselves to experimental testing. We cannot experiment on volcanic activity or climate change. Another example is our capacity to experiment on human behavior, which is quite restricted (and thankfully so).
To search for truth under these circumstances, we rely on inferential statistics. We collect data and then infer the likelihood of whether anything we find was “real” or an artifact of chance. The point here is that no single study, no single aspect of research is by itself completely reliable. There is a margin or potential error. The real strength of the findings comes about through replication of the research using new data, and replication of the findings using different observational approaches.
Here’s the key: Any individual program of research will have weaknesses. But, when taken collectively — the aggregate research, by multiple scientists looking at the same question from multiple angles — those weaknesses are diminished, since other individual research projects won’t have replicated those weaknesses.
So, ultimately, to say we should ignore “consensus” is to say we should ignore the science. When a whole lot of research, all using different methods, point in the same direction (the results converge to the same conclusion), the proper response is to ask “what is the likelihood of all these results not being real, given the weight of the evidence.”
That said, there will never be a 100% level of confidence. What I would love is for skeptics to tell us what level of confidence they require before they accept the consensus. How I would love for just one reporter to ask Mr. Inhofe (or any other denialist) “Please, what level of evidence would you accept as substantial enough that human caused climate change is real?” Without this last question answered, then there is no role for science on the denialist side.”
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2013/01/25/in-wall-street-journal-op-ed-bjorn-lomborg-urges-delay-with-misleading-stats/