Scientific consensus on climate change? Overwhelming.

© 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.

Reference

Oreskes, N., 2004: The scientific consensus on climate change. Science, 306, 1686.