Are there any recent studies on the scientific opinion on global warming?

Question

And I mean anonymous opinion polls among climatologists (not petitions) and not wishy washy paper's like Oreskes on stances in peer-reviewed papers, just explicit, scientific views on global warming.

Answer 1

You think an anonamous opinion poll (which they don't take among scientists) is more reliable than reviewing the peer-reviewed literature?

The Oreskes study is the gold standard, and if you don't trust her, you can repeat the study yourself like this guy did:

http://www.norvig.com/oreskes.html

Answer 2

I don't there are any anonymous polls.  In any case, I think what you're looking for are impartial assessments of the science.  

Here are the links to the science-oriented sites I've discovered.  I've been going through my "sites" file and haven't sorted through this yet, but all of the sites impressed me enough to add them to the list.

Answer 3

I remember hearing about a poll where the vast majority of scientists didn't think it was a major problem.  You will notice that alarmists always worm their way around this issue by merely stating that most scientist agree that humans are contributing to global warming.

Answer 4

Peer review is a very low standard.  That's just like minded people agreeing with each other.  Peer review is only used by magazine editors to give them a second opinion before they put something into print so they aren't embarrassed to publish something totally bogus.

Opinion polls don't equate to actual science, so what would be the point?

Answer 5

I think for purposes of this board Jim's "memory of an anonymous poll" is about as hard as the contrarian evidence is likely to get.  We probably just need a few more memories, and we'll have the IPCC on the run.