I see the following item from Greenwire today

CLIMATE: Survey reveals gap in acceptance of warming (07/10/2009)
A recent survey found that while nearly all scientists accept that human activity, mostly in the form of greenhouse gas emissions, is causing global warming, only half of the American public agrees with this view.
The survey found that 11 percent of the public does not believe there has been any warming at all, and about a third believes there is a lively scientific debate on whether man has caused climate change.
The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, drew on 2,000 members of the public and 2,500 members of the scientific association….
Alan I. Leshner, the chief executive of the science association, said scientists need to better engage the public.
“One cannot just exhort ‘we all agree you should agree with us,’” he said. “It’s a much more interactive process that’s involved. It’s time consuming and can be tedious. But it’s very important.” (emphasis added)

Alas, those were the days when screaming “it’s settled!” was all it took. But, ummm . . . that statement that “nearly all scientists accept that human activity is causing global warming” is, as a careful reading of the detail suggests, a bit of a stretch given the facts at hand. Instead, this cites a survey of a self-selecting band: the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. AAAS is a professional service organization, true, but also an aggressive lobbying group for taxpayer funding of science. (Or is it a coincidence that it is headquartered in Washington, DC?) No topic has led to more taxpayer funding of science in recent years than “global warming”. AAAS pumps the alarmist organ hard, including through its flagship publication Science, edited by AAAS official Donald Kennedy. So that’s sort of like saying nearly all journalists think George W. Bush is rotten according to a survey of New York Times journalists.

Well, most journalists would say that, wouldn’t they? So I suppose a better analogy is that all scribblers think the red-ink-hemmorhaging New York Times should stay in business with no job cuts — according to a survey of New York Times journalists.

Indeed it is fair to conclude that AAAS officials — like Donald Kennedy — do seem to have recognized the global-warming panic as just what Big Science and Big Academia need to recover from previous scandals that have raised questions about the billions that both receive in taxpayer funding. Google “Donald Kennedy scandal yacht wedding.” Or save the search time and just buy Red Hot Lies,

These folks can agree among themselves all they wish. The fact is that those millions of taxpayers who are the cash cows being milked to underwrite AAAS members’ existence remain the relevant voices, no matter how tedious AAAS members might find them.