Sentences with phrase «consensus view about global warming»

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For years, skeptics have filled comments with dismissive views of climate science to sow doubts about the consensus that fossil fuels are responsible for global warming — dominating that space, according to the group.

Right now the consensus view is that it is too early to say if global warming has already brought about a detectable change in the number and nature of tropical storms — the changes seen so far are still within the bounds of natural variability.

«Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming» chews up these sound bites, such as: «97 percent of scientists agree» with the conclusion that humans are causing catastrophic climate change; or, skeptics of the «consensus view» are paid off by big fossil fuel industries.

The majority of expert climate scientists have reached the consensus view that human activity has resulted in global warming, although there is debate about how much the temperature will rise in the future.

In this paper we tested four hypotheses: (1) perceived conflict about global warming will be negatively associated — and (2) climate expertise, (3) liberal political ideology, and (4) perceived scientific consensus will be positively associated — with (a) higher personal certainty that global warming is happening, (b) viewing the global warming observed over the past 150 years as mostly human - caused, and (c) perception of global warming as harmful.

We found that perceived scientific consensus was the factor most strongly associated with AMS members» views about global warming.

MIT professor Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., one of 11 scientists who prepared the National Academy of Sciences 2001 report on global warming, has stated repeatedly that there were a wide variety of scientific views presented in that report, and that the full report made clear that there is no consensus, unanimous or otherwise, about long - term climate trends and what causes them.

The latest paper investigating the scientific consensus is «Scientists» Views about Attribution of Global Warming «by Bart Verheggen.