Roger Pielke Snr has posted up the results of a survey into the opinions of bona fide climate scientists into the whole phenomenon of global warming. The actual work was performed by Fergus Brown, with the supervising team including both mainstream and more sceptical scientists.
The results were pretty much as I'd expected, and therefore seem to have been a surprise to some on the more mainstream side of the argument.
1. The largest group of respondents (45-50%) concur with the IPCC perspective as given in the 2007 Report.
2. A significant minority (15-20%), however, conclude that the IPCC understated the seriousness of the threat from human additions of CO2 .
3. A significant minority (15-20%), in contrast, conclude that the IPCC overstated the role of human additions of CO2 relative to other climate forcings.
4. Almost all respondents (at least 97%) conclude that the human addition of CO2 into the atmosphere is an important component of the climate system and has contributed to some extent in recent observed global average warming.
There is a follow up thread on Fergus Brown's blog here.