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It's actually an excellent question. When virtually all the scientists agree on the basic FACT that climate change is being driving by human pollution.....
China burns 4 to 5 times the amount of coal we do. Within the last decade alone their annunal consumption has increased as much as our total annual consumption.
No, no, no! It's evil SUV drivers killing the climate!
China adds 2000+ soft coal plants with no regulation - nothing to see here! The unicorns will handle that.
How quickly we forget the images of pollution clouds at the Beijing Olympics!
You believe in man-made climate change? That's cute. Do you believe in Santa too?
The Santa who is watching you all the time and delivers the gift of everlasting life if you've been good? The Dude also known as God?
No, not even a little.....
The Santa who is watching you all the time and delivers the gift of everlasting life if you've been good? The Dude also known as God?
No, not even a little.....
I think you're confused. They looked at articles / papers that dealt with GW - specifically the abstracts of those papers. Of all the papers written, less than a third of the authors specifically endorsed AGW in the abstract.
In other words, more than two thirds of the authors are uncertain. Out of those 2/3, a small fraction rejected AGW.
Since when is 1/3 a consensus?
No, I am not confused. I stated the conclusions correctly.
To quote: "We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming."
Not all scientific papers on global warming are about the causes of global warming; thus 66 % of abstracts did not address the issue of whether or not the causes are man-made. Of those that did, the majority endorsed man-made causes; only a small percentage rejected that theory.
Of 20 years of research on global warming, only 0.7 % of the research papers rejected man-made causes.
Why do scientists "believe" in man made climate change at much higher percentages than lay people?
Because these are climate research scientists. There is such a thing as expertise and knowledge of one's field, and that's what these scientists are experts in ---the climate.
No it's not. The vast majority of climatologists agree that the evidence is over-whelming that global warming is the result of man-made releases of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere.
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