New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault
A
new study has just come out that looked at nearly 12,000 professional
scientific journal papers about global warming, and found that—of the
papers expressing a stance on global warming—97 percent endorse both the
reality of global warming and the fact that humans are causing it.
Ninety-seven…
New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault
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Friday, May 17, 2013, at 8:00 AM
It's pretty much this simple: Global warming is real, and our fault.
Illustration by The Consensus Project
Illustration by The Consensus Project
A new study has just come out
that looked at nearly 12,000 professional scientific journal papers
about global warming, and found that—of the papers expressing a stance
on global warming—97 percent endorse both the reality of global warming
and the fact that humans are causing it.
Ninety-seven percent. That’s what we call a “consensus”, folks.
The study was clever.
They found the papers by searching on the terms “global warming” and
“global climate change”. Once they compiled the list of papers, they
looked at the abstracts (a short summary of the results scientists put
at the top of their papers) to see if the paper itself talked about the
causes of global warming. About 4000 of the papers did so. That may seem
like a smallish fraction, but most papers analyze measurements and
climate effects, not the cause of global warming (like most
astronomical papers on, say, galaxies don’t discuss how galaxies form,
but focus on their structure, content, and so on—also, because there is
such a strong consensus on warming, scientists don't generally feel the
need to state the obvious in their abstracts).
Examining those 4000 papers, the study authors determined that 97.1
percent of them endorsed the consensus that humans are causing global
warming. And here’s where they did the clever bit: They contacted 8500
authors of the papers in question and asked them to self-rate those
papers. They got responses from 1200 authors (a nice fraction), and,
using the same criteria as the study, it turns out 97.2 percent of the authors endorse the consensus.
That’s a remarkable agreement! And it’s no surprise. There have been several studies showing almost exactly the same thing. This new one is interesting due to the methodology, and the fact that it’s so robust.
So, the bottom line: The vast majority of scientists who
conduct climatological research and publish their results in
professional journals say humans are the cause of global warming. There
is essentially no controversy among actual climate scientists about this.
Of course, if you read the Wall Street Journal
or the contrarian blogs, you might think the controversy among
scientists is bigger. But you’ll find that the vast majority of people
writing those articles, or who are quoted in them, are not climatologists. You’ll also find many, including politicians so vocally denying global warming, are heavily funded by fossil fuel interests, or lead institutes funded that way.
Because deniers tend to go to the OpEd pages and TV, rather than
science journals, the public perception is skewed in their favor; people
think this is a bigger controversy than it is. The only controversy
here is a manufactured one; made up by people who are basing it on
ideology, not facts, evidence, and science. That’s not just my opinion; that statement itself is backed up by facts, evidence, and science.
Global warming is real. Climate change is happening. Carbon dioxide in the air is increasing, and is at a higher level than it has been for the past three million years. That carbon dioxide is increasingly heating us up: we are warming at a rate faster than in the past 11,000 years, and most likely far longer than that.
And it’s our fault. It’s well past time we do something about it, and we need to get past this false controversy. For more information, go to The Consensus Project, and see what we can do about it.end quote from:
New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and Our Fault
Realistically speaking there is no way to stop what is going to happen the next 300 years. Even if we stopped right now the next 300 years are going to be a nightmare for the people of Earth and likely unsurvivable for most people without infrastructure and advanced technology.
So, I guess what I'm actually saying is scientists may agree to the tune of 97% but the rest of the world (5 to 7 billion people) do not agree or have consensus of what to do about it. Because of this likely there will be a 20% to 80% drop in the actual population of humans on earth during the next 100 to 300 years as a result. The real question regarding this becomes: "What are all the dying people going to do during this obvious population reduction by weather and not being able to raise enough crops to eat worldwide because of ongoing and increasingly extreme weather anomalies?
This isn't going to be organized at this point it is just going to be very hard to watch worldwide no matter what anyone or any group does now.
If any of you saw the movie "Pearl Harbor" with Ben Affleck when all the casualties came into the hospital in Pearl Harbor they had to do Triage.
What likely will happen likely will be Triage by Country and by area all over Earth in regard to what groups can be saved and which groups can't. Just like the lipstick with letters on the foreheads of the injured in the movie were things like "F" Fatal wound, "M" needs Morphine can potentially survive the wounds etc.
In some ways it always has been like this already for centuries.
Triage
Triage
is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments
based on the severity of their condition. This rations patient treatment
efficiently when resources are insufficient for all to be treated
immediately. Wikipedia
Rationing treatment: i.e. "Food" to those who can be saved and can potentially survive will be something necessary for anyone to survive on earth at all at some point in the next 100 to 300 years.
So, my thought is that clean air, clean water and edible life giving food will all become more and more of a problem to obtain as the weather worsens worldwide.
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