Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
@article{Doran2009ExaminingTS, title={Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change}, author={Peter T. Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman}, journal={Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union}, year={2009}, volume={90}, pages={22-23} }
Fifty-two percent of Americans think most climate scientists agree that the Earth has been warming in recent years, and 47% think climate scientists agree (i.e., that there is a scientific consensus) that human activities are a major cause of that warming, according to recent polling (see http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm). However, attempts to quantify the scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming have met with criticism. For instance, Oreskes [2004] reviewed 928 abstracts from peer…
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