The IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published a consensus statement about climate change as follows; "In its most recent assessment, IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: "Human activities ... are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents ... that absorb or scatter radiant energy. ... [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations". Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environmental Programme, IPCC's purpose is to evaluate the state of climate science as a basis for informed policy action, primarily on the basis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature. Recently they published a review of ten years of every published paper dealing with climate change (934). What percent of these do you think disagreed with the consensus?
2006-11-02
05:59:38
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Conservatives claim that a lot of scientists think it's bunk. So let's hear what percent of published papers in a ten year span said it's bunk. Anyone?
2006-11-02
06:03:24 ·
update #1
OK, well I see that no conservatives are willing to answer this question so congrats to you who said zero%
"Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position."
From;
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
2006-11-02
06:10:36 ·
update #2
Scorbore; you posted the same list last time. You found the .5% of scientists who have published SINCE the reference I listed, who disagree with the consensus. Nothing new to add eh?
2006-11-02
07:38:25 ·
update #3