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Friday, December 9, 2011

Graphic showing consensus of climate scientists on anthropogenic global warming

Pandango: Republican politicians are often times quoted as saying that there is no scientific consensus on global warming.  This graphic shows the true consensus on global warming. Green shows those publishing scientists who agree that humans are causing global warming (97%).  Red shows those publishing scientists who are not in agreement.  It is a much different picture than what one hears from the conservative media...

Wikepedia: Global Warming Controversy
A 2010 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analysed "1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers".[47][48] Judith Curry has said "This is a completely unconvincing analysis", whereas Naomi Oreskes said that the paper shows that "the vast majority of working [climate] research scientists are in agreement [on climate change]... Those who don't agree, are, unfortunately—and this is hard to say without sounding elitist—mostly either not actually climate researchers or not very productive researchers".[48][49]

File:Ratio of publishing climate scientists who believe humans are warming the planet based on Aderegg.jpg

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