Not exact matches
Recent Gallup Poll results suggest that this skepticism among Republican and conservative elites has led rank - and - file Republicans to follow suit, as currently there is a large gap
between self - identified Republicans and Democrats in terms of
perceptions of
global warming.
Nick Pidgeon, professor at Cardiff University, who co-authored the research, said this showed that there was a clear link
between last year's severe flooding incidents, which left thousands homeless, and the
perception of
global warming.
Normally when I talk about the «Consensus Gap», the discrepancy
between the 97 % consensus and the public
perception of consensus, I use a histogram of the public response to the question «how many climate scientists agree that humans are causing
global warming?»
The Consensus Gap is the difference
between the public's
perception of how much agreement there is among scientists that humans are causing
global warming (red distribution), compared to the actual 97 % consensus among scientists publishing in the peer - reviewed literature (green line).
Social scientists have coined the term «consensus gap» to describe the large discrepancy
between the actual 97 % consensus, and the public
perception that just half to two - thirds or experts agree on human - caused
global warming.