Putting on the tinfoil cap, Ian? It's all a grand conspiracy. All these scientists worldwide just don't know science. LOL
what did I say that made you jump to conspiracy theories? do they poll their members before making policy statements? do those policy statements explicitly state that catastophe is going to happen? or do they say IF the warming trend continues, IF the rise in CO2 leads to amplification of the known small effect of CO2 to the large effect projected by climate models, THEN climatic disturbances could be either be deletorious or beneficial to mankind. anything else wouldnt be very scientific would it?
not that I expect any semblance of scientific thought from you. you think weather is proof of global warming. you seem to be able to hold two or more mutually exclusive ideas in your head at the same time while ferverently believing all of them to be true.
Actually the one scientific society of which I am a member does indeed poll it's members on subjects like this.
how big of a majority does it take to pass? does it publicly state what the results of the vote were?