Sentences with phrase «humans are causing»

The study examined the abstracts of 12,464 papers and about a third of them endorsed the fact that humans are causing global warming.

A new survey of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97 % consensus in the peer - reviewed literature that humans are causing global warming.

Finally, Neil again discussed the paper I co-authored finding a 97 percent consensus in the peer - reviewed literature that humans are causing global warming.

3 Implicit Endorsement: paper implies humans are causing global warming.

Category 2 of Explicit Endorsement in the Cook paper was defined as «Explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming / climate change as a known fact»

As climate science denial goes, Roberts» position is as far to the fringe as you can go, mixing conspiracy theories with outright rejection of the conclusions of science academies and institutions across the world that humans are causing climate change.

Suggestions of conspiracy is also occasionally found among IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists, as in the following e-mail message circulated at a U.S. climate research lab: «Ironically, the people who are conducting these attacks and accuse the scientific community of belonging to some sort of «global conspiracy» are themselves part of a conspiracy, funded by the oil and coal industry, to discredit any scientist or piece of evidence that supports the hypothesis that humans are causing a detectable change to global climate.»

If your abstract / paper implied, expressed, or explicitly stated that «humans are causing global warming» - note, not «contributing» but «causing», i.e. the primary or dominant cause as per any reasonable use of English, the abstract / paper would be rated as 3, 2, or 1 respectively.

Over the years, a number of studies have found that among publishing climate scientists, 97 % agree that humans are causing global warming.

2 Explicit Endorsement without Quantification: paper explicitly states humans are causing global warming or refers to anthropogenic global warming / climate change as a given fact.

These claims are not supported by Cook et al (2013), since only 1.6 % of the reviewed papers stated «that humans are causing most of global warming».

(I have absolutely no objection to the claim that «97 % of papers stated (implicitly or explicitly) that humans are causing warming»)

In response, I pointed out that while the fundamental fact that humans are causing global warming was considered settled by scientists decades ago, the general public continue to be confused over even these fundamental elements of climate science (Pew 2012).

Oh, hang on - are you now saying that humans are causing global warming after a couple of thousand years of slight global cooling as shown by Marcott et al and others?

Those who want to preserve the status quo have continued to deny and attack the expert consensus because it's a «gateway belief»: when people are aware of the high level of scientific agreement on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept that climate change is happening, that humans are causing it, and support policies to reduce carbon pollution.

The very first video lecture addresses Roberts» central claim, summarising the empirical evidence that humans are causing climate change.

Over time, the percentage of climate scientists agreeing that humans are causing global warming has steadily increased.

Some are specific about quantifying the percentage of human contribution, others just say «humans are causing climate change» without specific quantification.

The figure below shows what people said in 2013 when asked how many climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.

Thousands of questionnaires sent out to scientists and only 77 were returned, and 95 percent of that responded that humans are causing climate change.

We had a simple goal: communicate in a playful fashion the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming.

Nearly all climate scientists agree that Earth's climate is rapidly warming, that humans are causing it and that if nothing is done, climate change could have catastrophic consequences in the coming decades.

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).

If we spend all of our time arguing about whether or not humans are causing global warming, we're wasting time and energy.

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?»

However, in the scientific community, there is little controversy with 97 % of climate scientists concluding humans are causing global warming.

(ie: Heating in winter) Green house gases is a proven part of the anthropomorphic change we humans are causing to the climate.

Within that group they determined how many scientists really did agree with the most important IPCC conclusion, namely that humans are causing significant climate change — in other words the key parts of WG I.

Krosnick found to his surprise that, regardless of geography, most Americans accept that global warming is happening and that humans are causing it.

The scientific agreement that humans are causing global warming is overwhelming and robust.

When people are aware of the high level of scientific agreement on human - caused global warming, they're more likely to accept that climate change is happening, that humans are causing it and support policies to reduce carbon pollution.

For the past several decades, there has been a strengthening scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming.

They are also abundantly evident in the movement that denies the scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming.

Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature» by John Cook et al: 97 % of climate scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.

He maintains that global warming is happening, and humans are causing it.

This means a skeptic paper doesn't necessarily «reject the consensus position» that humans are causing global warming.

Accuracy of the global average temperature is very questionable, especially as the basis for «proving» that humans are causing global warming.

C13 found that among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.

They describe their meaning of consensus in their abstract «the consensus position that humans are causing global warming».

In other words, much of the «overwhelming scientific data» that supposedly proves that humans are causing climate change actually amounts to judgment calls, made by those groping in the dark for something that might not even exist.

The hot spot is not a unique greenhouse signature and finding the hot spot doesn't prove that humans are causing global warming.

> How do you interpret this: «Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1 % endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.»

If you were able to poll each of them, what percentage of the scientists would tell you climate change is real and we humans are causing it?

The Earth is warming and humans are causing the bulk of this warming.»

So if your consensus is «humans are causing most of the observed warming», then you need the papers that don't somehow quantify the effect in a different category, because you then have to add an assumption in order to get an endorsement for your consensus definition.

Even allowing for the «uncertainty monster», I think the question that humans are causing the increase in CO2 is an open - and - shut case, but it's the isotope ratios that nails it.

After all, there's no reason for most climate research to say «humans are causing > 50 % of global warming» (except attribution research), especially in the abstract.»

But don't expect to change the mind of anyone who holds the belief that humans are causing global warming because this is a religious belief for them.

The IPCC's last report says that there is a 90 - plus percent certainty that humans are causing the problem, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

More than 97 % of climate scientists accept that humans are causing climate change and less than 2 % reject that view.