Allan Crossman wrote:
Here the question is - does nearly every expert in
whatever field
"global warming" falls under (environmental science, or whatever)
accept William Connolley's claim? I don't know yet.
I'm still not sure that I can agree.
Let's suppose that nearly every expert in environmental science or
whatever agrees with claim X, but at the same time a large number of
political activists disputes it vigorously -- let's imagine that they
are Greenpeace activists, instead of conservative activists, just for
fun.
In a case like that, I don't think that _Wikipedia_ should be in the
business of labelling the view as 'obviously false'. We can say that
"most scientists say that it is obviously false" or we can say that
"William Connelly, noted thus-and-so, says that it is obviously false"
or any number of things in that neighborhood.
But because it is disputed by non-lunatics, we need to step away from
making the claim ourselves.
--Jimbo