The Earth has warmed 0.85 °C from 1880 (preindustrial times) to 2012, according to the latest
consensus science reported in September by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the scientific body established by the United Nations to inform governments of climate risks.
Not exact matches
Scientific
consensus that humans cause climate change is akin to the scientific
consensus that smoking causes cancer, says a
report released today by the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
A broad
consensus on the need to enable public access to all U.S. federal research emerged in a
report published in January by the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, a panel of librarians, academic leaders and publishers convened last June by the OSTP and the House Committee on
Science and Technology.
If the scientific
consensus disagrees with that opinion, political appointees rewrite the
reports, and dissenters are left off of
science advisory boards.»
The growing
consensus on steps needed to reform elementary
science education will not produce results without the «purposeful involvement» of the federal government, a forthcoming
report contends.
By distilling and organizing the existing research on cognitive
science and educational psychology, the
reports offer teacher candidates concise summaries of high - impact practices grounded in scientific evidence and professional
consensus around PK - 12 learning.
If different groups of scientists have a public bet running on this, this will signal to the public that this forecast is not a widely supported
consensus of the climate
science community, in contrast to the IPCC
reports (about which we are in complete agreement with Keenlyside and his colleagues).
I think he is fundamentally mistaken on this point and his too - frequent absolutist statements based on preliminary
science are a classic example of why «
consensus»
reports are both more careful and more correct than an individual opinion.
As a scientist, one of the things I look for in popular
science accounts is an appropriate recognition of the difference between a suggestion made in a single paper and the description of any «
consensus» on the issues (such as described in the IPCC
reports for instance).
In a 2012 paper, «The pivotal role of perceived scientific
consensus in acceptance of
science,» Lewandowsky and his co-authors
reported on two studies.
3) How many scientists present
science that is not consistent with the
science of the «
consensus police,» but who don't
report attempts at intimidation?
it's the IPCC
reports which are
consensus science.
quote: «Despite the 97 % expert
consensus on human - caused global warming supported by peer - reviewed research, expert opinion, the IPCC
reports, and National Academies of
Science and other scientific organizations from around the world, a large segment of the population remains unconvinced on the issue.»
23 Sept: Live
Science: Becky Oskin: Climate Scientists: IPCC
Report Must Communicate Consensus Climate experts also told LiveScience they would like to see the new report stress the scientific consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global wa
Report Must Communicate
Consensus Climate experts also told LiveScience they would like to see the new
report stress the scientific consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global wa
report stress the scientific
consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global warming.
DeSmog
reported that the House Committee on
Science, Space and Technology hearings «have officially turned into theater to stage climate science denial,» noting that Michael Mann was the only witness on the committee to represent the 97 % consensus view that humans cause climate
Science, Space and Technology hearings «have officially turned into theater to stage climate
science denial,» noting that Michael Mann was the only witness on the committee to represent the 97 % consensus view that humans cause climate
science denial,» noting that Michael Mann was the only witness on the committee to represent the 97 %
consensus view that humans cause climate change.
On the contrary, even as confidence in the mainstream scientific
consensus was solidified be the released of the IPPP Fourth Assessment
Report in 2007, the rightwing opponents of
science were buoyed by the La Nina event of early 2008, which produced a sharp, but temporary drop in temperatures, particularly in the Pacific.
This latest
report on the
Science of Climate Change covered the key aspects of concern to those not part of the IPCC
consensus, but did not involve them sufficiently, if at all, in developing the material and the result seems to be an official dismissal of the literature rather than a thorough development as is common for ideas necessary for the
consensus view to be valid.
A cursory review of the submissions so far show 13 submissions supportive of the IPCC, 23 critical, and 4 that focus only on one of the questions (Dixon on implementing IAC recommendations, more critical than not, Gruenier on
consensus and does not see good evidence, Institute for
Science and Society focused on Media
reporting on AR5 — interesting read, and James Painter focus on communication re: uncertainty).
Organisations who deny or reject current
science on human - caused climate change, such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical
reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the
consensus research on Capitol Hill.
The politicization of the IPCC
consensus formation and
reporting process is further reinforced by the substantial vested interests in climate
science and ambitious climate policy.
In its June 1, 1984 issue, The Washington Post
reported the issuance of a massive new
report by the White House
science office supporting the scientific
consensus that «agents found to cause cancer in animals should be considered «suspect human carcinogens,»» and that «giving animals high doses of an agent is a proper way to test its carcinogenicity.»
Perhaps it is because the same procedures have been adopted by many other assessments in many other contexts; the National Academies of
Science, for example, produces
consensus documents from diverse committees and panels that are subjected to expert review from selected external scholars (and it is perhaps noteworthy that NAS
reports occasionally feature signed dissents on particular points).
«Quantifying the
consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature» - not just the * climate
science * literature, any more than the IPCC
reports are all about WG1.»
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just completed a series of landmark
reports that chronicle an update to the current state of
consensus science on climate change.
Although numerous reviews have examined the credibility of climate researchers (Anderegg et al. 2010), the scientific
consensus on climate change (Doran and Kendall Zimmerman 2009) and the complexity of media
reporting (Corner et al. 2012), few studies have undertaken an empirical review of the publication record to evaluate the existence of publication biases in climate change
science.
In his remarks, Gore praised InsideClimate News and cited the L.A. Times and the Columbia School of Journalism for their investigative
reporting that, after independent investigations, reached similar conclusions about Exxon's role in climate research and its attempts to undermine the
consensus on climate
science.
Since the thrust of your
report is about the fight over cap - and - trade, isn't it more important to assess the fairness, albeit admittedly more difficult, of coverage on that issue — e.g., exaggerated alarmism over potential energy price spikes, etc. — than whether
consensus science was reflected?
We've been told many times that the regular IPCC
reports represent a clear
consensus of the Scientific Community on the issue, and are based solely on peer - reviewed
science.
This comparison is a classic Lomborg straw man: politely ridiculing the
science in the
consensus IPCC
report by holding it against what «many» say.
Soon after the 2007 release of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment
Report, those familiar with the
science began to say that as a result of the
consensus process and the natural caution of scientists, the Fourth Assessment
Report had seriously understated the risks from climate change, particularly in its selection of scenarios and its estimates of likely sea - level rise.16
Among the academies of
sciences around the world that have issued
reports supporting the
consensus view is the United States Academy of
Sciences that has issued four
reports.
A recent series of
reports from the
Science and Public Policy Institute spotlights problems with the peer review process of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and efforts to create the illusion of scientific
consensus on global warming.
The IPCC
report uses the old propaganda trick of passing off percentage probabilities that represent
consensus as being
science.
According to the book Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, the most frequently cited source for a «
consensus of scientists» is Oreskes» a 2004 essay for the journal
Science, in which she
reported examining abstracts from 928 papers published in scientific journals in 1993 and 2003 she found using the keywords «global climate change.»
According to a
report in Reason Magazine, titled Union of Concerned Scientists Cooks the Books, Media Swallow It, UCS and its analysts used corporate giving data to «imply that General Electric executives were climate change hypocrites,» supportive of some think tanks that are skeptical of the «scientific
consensus» on global warming, including Reason itself, which UCS accused of «misrepresenting climate change
science.»
At his BBC blog Andrew Neil lays out the itemized fraud from the 2007 UN IPCC
report that has been rolling out in recent days, previously
reported by the BBC and other formerly mainstream media as «sound» and «
consensus»
science.
Surely this is merely an aberration, that in no way affects the accurate
reporting of the overwhelming
consensus views of the settled
science as presented.
Thus, by way of the institutionalized journalistic norm of balanced
reporting, United States television news coverage has perpetrated an informational bias by significantly diverging from the
consensus view in climate
science that humans contribute to climate change.
Your statements on climate
science are based on nothing more than your own personal beliefs about people you have never met, upon scientific
reports you don't understand, and upon personal incredulity that anyone could disagree with your «
consensus».
The prestigious
science consensus journal Nature has published a new peer - reviewed study that counters what that journal has been
reporting about Antarctica for at least the last decade.
The
report, focused on the physical
science of our climate system, confirms the overwhelming scientific
consensus that the world is warming and human activities are responsible.
The best thing would be to totally revamp the IPCC, open it up so there is public review and input on all drafts, make it about
science and not policy, and make it about
reporting all that is known rather than making some «
consensus» that mean little.
E-mails leaked last November cast doubt on the integrity of a few of the 4000 scientists who produce
consensus reports for the U.N. body on climate change
science (Science, 4 December 2009, p.
science (
Science, 4 December 2009, p.
Science, 4 December 2009, p. 1329).
Bottom line here: Revkin's
reporting occasionally raises the eyebrows of those committed to the so - called «
consensus science» of IPCC and eager to move forward with stringent controls on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
I can not understand how she claims that the IPCC asserts «uneuqivocally» that it's summary
reports represent a
consensus view of scientists at large, or why she extrapolates the
consensus beyond the one she claims in the thesis (and the one
Science refers to in it's summary of her study.)
In terms of atmospheric chemistry, a strong
consensus was reached for the first time that
science could predict the changes in tropospheric ozone in response to scenarios for CH4 and the indirect greenhouse gases (CO, NOx, VOC) and that a quantitative GWP for CO could be
reported.
If you want to do something really unusual, which would gain you respect why don't you organise an extended
report into the
consensus science of global warming?
As you note «a high level of agreement doesn't mean that the
science is correct»... Those of us who have taken issue with SOME of the claims in the IPCC
report — and we have been vindicated, in fact — have been dismissed as «deniers» of «the
consensus».
The second paragraph in the same section finds a clear
consensus (72 %) that the scientists feel that uncertainty in climate
science is under
reported.
Compare that with the dozens of statements on climate change from various scientific organisations around the world representing tens of thousands of scientists, the
consensus position represented by the IPCC
reports and the 11,000 signatories to a petition condemning the Bush administration's stance on climate
science.