© 2004 Eugene S. Takle
Politicians seeking to downplay risks of climate change and corporate executives whose company revenues
might be adversely affected by regulations on carbon emissions tend to cite "scientific uncertainty" as
reason for public inaction on limiting emissions of greenhouse gases. Oreskes (2004) analyzed
abstracts from 928 articles published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 having key
words "climate change" that were listed in the ISI database. She found not a single paper in this
group disagreed with the consensus position that humans are responsible for at least part of the
currently observed climate change.
Oreskes, N., 2004: The scientific consensus on climate change. Science,
306, 1686.
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