and he responded with this:
and did not get the irony - not only that I did not say "everyone" (although a vast majority are) since I was being specific about this, but also some ironic info about Stossel from Wikipedia.org:
John Stossel has also been criticized for presenting a critical view of the scientific opinion on climate change (i.e., global warming)<17><18>.In June of 2001, for example, Stossel aired a special one-hour segment titled "Tampering with Nature." In this report, he referred to a well-publicized letter from the Union of Concerned Scientists which warned of the "devastating consequences" of global warming: "You may have heard that 1,600 scientists signed a letter warning of 'devastating consequences.' But I bet you hadn't heard that 17,000 scientists signed a petition saying that there's 'no convincing evidence' that greenhouse gases will disrupt the Earth's climate.<19>. What Stossel fails to mention is that signatories for the first letter he describes included 110 Nobel Prize winners and 60 U.S. National Medal of Science winners. The latter petition was the product of the George C. Marshall Institute, which is affiliated with a number of corporate-funded, conservative organizations known for global warming skepticism <20><21><22>. Signatories for the Marshall Institute's petition included ophthalmologists, dentists, nutritionists, and other falsifications which were encouraged by detractors to the study.<23><24>. Of the final 19,700 signatures, 17,800 were independently verified. This included 2,660 physicists, geophysicists, climatologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists. It also included 5,017 scientists whose fields of specialization in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and other life sciences <25>
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