Didn't we discuss the skepticalscience.com site already?
As usual with the pages you copy from this site, the stuff under "What the science says . . ." misnomer is irrelevant.
You can't counter a 31K scientists counter to your 400 scientists assertion, by reference to yet another survey. It's a profoundly irrational approach. Since we've seen this site do this and the like any number of times, it's time for them to go.
And one more time with the reason I even brought up the 31K petition: Science is not a function of consensus. The validity of a given scientific assertion is not affected in any way be the number of people who accept it, reject it, whatever. It doesn't matter if we're talking about a group of convicts or a group of scientists, whether we're talking about some obscure philosophic point, hardcore applied science or theoretical science. Truth is not open to vote.
And for the love of God, try to remember that eloquent summation of this point offered by Brit Hume:
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Scientific consensus is what you get when you don't have scientific fact.
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This is made as plain as anything can be made by the history of science, of philosophy, and a basic education that didn't go off course because of the gargoyles we've entrusted the core ideas of our culture to/with whatever the right word is.