Keltoi Samurai
Lord aKHAANaton
Keltoi Samurai
Divine_Malevolence
Term's "Climate change" not "Global warming".
Yeah, "Global Warming" is so 20 years ago.
And "Next Ice Age" was so 20 years before that.
The simple truth is, "climate change" became the term when we realised we were wrong twice before, and we wanted a new term that'd stay right no matter how wrong we were.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/17/97-percent-of-scientific-studies-agree-on-manmade-global-warming-so-what-now/
A similar number agreed that we were heading for a new ice age only a handful of decades ago.
Also, that study isn't saying "97% of studies agree," it's saying "97% of the 34% of studies we chose to include agree."
It's an important distinction to make.
Actually.....
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article
Quote:
We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming.
It's more complicated then just saying "Oh, they chose not to include 66% of studies."That's an easy way to brush it off, but it's far from the truth.
They had a clear goal with the study, which was to determine a scientific consensus. Only 34% of studies they looked at qualified. And, of that 34%, the overwhelming majority started that it does, in fact, exist.