When you look at the leading scientists who have made any sort of statement about anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, you find 97 percent of those top 100 surveyed scientists explicitly agreeing with or endorsing the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) assessment.
We really wanted to bring the expertise dimension into this whole discussion. We hope to put to rest the notion that keeps being repeated in the media and by some members of the public that ‘the scientists disagree’ about whether human activity is contributing to climate change.
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Republican Senatorial Candidates and Climate Change: 100% Disbelief
Posted in Weekend EditionFrom a political and philosophical perspective none of this should surprise us. GOP climate science doubt fits with a strong anti-science (see also stem cell research and “Intelligent Design” theory) strain in the conservative movement, which has deeper echoes in anti-elitist paranoia and evangelicalism.