okay there are way too many tangents in this discussion and that's my fault my point is that the scientists considered for representing the entire scientific population groups from above are not a representative sample therefore it is not appropriate to make the small minority of scientists claim the only accurate way to assess the opinions of a large group of scientists is to poll them as every researcher does not necessarily believe every word in a study they participate in maybe the larger question is this what do scientist's opinions matter they don't get paid to have opinions but to do objective research let's talk about the results of course i think it's acceptable to have opinion based articles that are separate from the main gw article such as scientific opinion on climate change and list of scientists opposing global warming consensus