Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature – IOPscience.
An examination of 11,944 peer-reviewed scientific studies & abstracts for discussion on the causes of global warming found that 97.1% of those studies that took a position on global warming supported the position that humans are causing climate change. Only 2.9% expressed uncertainty or took positions against the theory that humans are causing global warming.
There is more scientific consensus on this issue than on settled scientific issues like cigarettes causing cancer, but the media coverage portrays a broader scientific debate and 1/2 of our political parties in the U.S., beholden to petro-chemical interests, believe climate change is a hoax and act like this is a political issue rather than a scientific one.
I urge you to be active in the next election and vote for people who correctly recognize global warming as the most important issue that faces our world today.
