Category talk:Former global warming skeptics

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Doesn't Jane belong on this list now? And BP?

It's hard to quantify those who were sceptical before if they didn't publicize their scepticism beforehand. --Skyemoor 14:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean Jane Galt? I think she should be added, though I'm not sure whether she was a public sceptic. I added BP and noted their withdrawal from the Global Climate Coalition in 1997.JQ 22:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know of any article or statement from Davis Attenborough in opposition to the warming claim. He has, in promting warming, stated that he used not to believe it as firmly as he does now but I think there should be indepentent contemporary evidence of scepticism before he is dragged out as proof that former sceptics are reforming.

David Attenborough does not belong on this list. He was privately skeptical but, knowing the influence of his views, was careful not to state a view in public. After looking at the evidence when researching his TV show on climate change he simultaneously announced his former private skepticism, his public support for the theory of global warming, and the urgent need for a change in the public moral attitude towards energy use.

Listing people for their unexpressed views is problematic. Not the least because the initial papers on global warming were met with skepticism by all scientists in the field (not even the authors were convinced), views which changed after more evidence was collected. I'm not sure that scientists who have had their careers blighted by radically skeptical governments would appreciate being in a "former skeptics" list. 150.101.30.44 (talk) 17:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Whwn I was here before there was a page leading to Former believers in Global Warming who have tured skeptical. Can't find it. Where is it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.130.219 (talk) 16:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Out of fairness, shouldn't there be an article about global warming advocates turned skeptical? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.98.29.48 (talk) 20:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)