Scientists whose careers are dependent on a given theory are the least likely realize when the data indicate that the theory has serious problem. Global warming is not the only example. When the Big Bang theory began to spring leaks, it had to be patched up with ad hoc kludges like inflation, dark matter, and dark energy.

This problem is especially serious with the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory, because those promoting it as a sociopolitical agenda set up government funded research organizations charged with making sure the data fit the theory. The fact that the data have refused to co-operate for almost the last two decades has only served to make the indentured researchers more shrill and strident in defending their income streams.

In this UK parliamentary committee of 11 members, only the two with scientific training were able to see past the propaganda stream with enough confidence to recognize the extent to which the real world data has diverged from the warming alarmists' predictions:

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Just TWO climate committee MPs contradict IPCC: The two with SCIENCE degrees
'Greenhouse effect is real, but as for the rest of it ...'
29 Jul 2014 - Lewis Page

The UK's Parliamentary climate change select committee has just issued a written endorsement of the latest, alarmist UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. However, two MPs - the two most scientifically qualified on the committee - have strongly disagreed with this position.

The IPCC's latest AR5 report takes a firmly alarmist position on carbon and climate change, predicting massively accelerated global warming and attendant sea level rises, crop failures and other global disasters unless human emissions of greenhouse gases - particularly carbon dioxide - are sharply curbed. The UK parliamentary committee report just out now firmly endorses this.

But not all the committee's members are convinced.

"As scientists by training, we do not dispute the science of the greenhouse effect - nor did any of our witnesses," said Peter Lilley (Conservative) and Graham Stringer (Labour) in a statement issued as the committee report came out.

"However, there remain great uncertainties about how much warming a given increase in greenhouse gases will cause, how much damage any temperature increase will cause and the best balance between adaptation versus prevention of global warming."

The two sceptics highlighted the ongoing hiatus in global warming, which has seen temperatures around the world remain basically the same for more than 15 years, following noticeable warming in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/29/just_two_climate_committee_mps_clash_with_ipcc_the_two_with_science_degrees/

See also:

The more science you know, the less worried you are about climate
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/science_and_maths_knowledge_makes_you_sceptical/