List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

The title is misleading but then it is the title given by the Wikipedia. Whether there is a consensus is something of a question. Whether the consensus is right is another. Then there is the issue of why various alleged scientists take their positions. A lot of it has to do with research grants given or withheld. Various Wiki writers are attacking the mere publication of this article. Presumably they like to suppress free speech unless they agree with the content.

The scientists include:-

Believe global warming is not occurring or has ceased

Timothy F. Ball, former Professor of Geography, University of Winnipeg:
Robert M. Carter, geologist, researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia:
Vincent R. Gray, coal chemist, founder of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition:

Believe accuracy of IPCC climate projections is questionable

Hendrik Tennekes, retired Director of Research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute:
Antonino Zichichi, emeritus professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bologna and president of the World Federation of Scientists :

Believe global warming is primarily caused by natural processes

• Khabibullo Abdusamatov, mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

• Sallie Baliunas, astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics:

• George V. Chilingar, Professor of Civil and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California:

• Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa:

• David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester:

• Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University:

• William M. Gray, Professor Emeritus and head of The Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University:

• William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology:

• George Kukla, retired Professor of Climatology at Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,

• David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Centre for Climatic Research, University of Delaware:

• William Happer, physicist Princeton University:

• Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa:

• Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in Canada:

• Ian Plimer, Professor emeritus of Mining Geology, The University of Adelaide:

• Harrison Schmitt, former Astronaut, chair of the NASA Advisory Council, Adjunct Professor of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison:

• Tom Segalstad, head of the Geology Museum at the University of Oslo:

• Nir Shaviv, astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

• Fred Singer, Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia:

• Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics:

• Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville:

• Philip Stott, professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London:

• Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Centre:

• Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, Professor Emeritus from University of Ottawa:

Believe cause of global warming is unknown

• Syun-Ichi Akasofu, retired professor of geophysics and Founding Director of the International Arctic Research Centre of the University of Alaska Fairbanks:

• Claude Allègre, geochemist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris):

• Robert C. Balling, Jr., a professor of geography at Arizona State University:

• John Christy, professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Centre at the University of Alabama in Huntsville,

• Petr Chylek, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory:

• William R. Cotton, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University

• David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma:

• Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland:

• Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Sciences:

Believe global warming will not be significantly negative

• Craig D. Idso, faculty researcher, Office of Climatology, Arizona State University and founder of the Centre for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change:

• Sherwood Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University:

• Patrick Michaels, part-time research professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia:

Bob Carter was quoted thus:-
QUOTE
Now that mounting evidence is finally turning
public opinion against the hypothesis of man-made
'global warming', exposing it for the fraud that
it is, it is time to begin criminal investigations
into those who have actively promoted the 'crisis'
and profited from their efforts to do so.

The 'global-warming' situation is no different to
the ENRON scandal or Bernie Madoff's fraud -
except it is truly global in scale.

The contempt typically shown towards anyone who
would dare question the validity of the warming
hypothesis, let alone demand an impartial
assessment of research and data 'proving' man is
responsible for most of the warming supposedly
observed over the past century (notwithstanding
that  temperature data from urban areas is corrupt
due to the 'urban heat island effect', is simply
unacceptable.

Research that does not support the hypothesis is
supposed to be considered also -  not simply
ignored for the sake of convenience.

Such communist tactics serve only to suppress the
facts by muzzling or silencing dissenters who
refuse and who will not conform to the
predetermined 'plan' that has been decided.

Science is supposed to investigate all potential
possibilities and outcomes based on a rational
analysis of the data available.  It is not
supposed to be corrupted and politicized to the
extent that it becomes nothing more then a farce.

"It is a remarkable fact that despite the
worldwide expenditure of perhaps US$50 billion
since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands
of scientists worldwide, no human climate signal
has yet been detected that is distinct from
natural variation."

Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James
Cook University, Townsville
UNQUOTE
That is very much to the point. The source might or might not be good.