Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
The University of Queensland · The University of Western Australia · +14 more institutions
Abstract
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%-100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming. A survey of authors of those papers (N=2412 papers) also supported a 97% consensus. Tol (2016 Environ. Res. Lett. 11 048001) comes to a different conclusion using results from surveys of nonexperts such as economic geologists and a self-selected group of those who reject the consensus. We demonstrate that this…
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16Topics & keywords
- Scientific consensus
- Global warming
- Washington Consensus
- Climate change
- Political science
- Consensus conference
- Position (finance)
- Computer science
- Climate action