Friday, September 07, 2007

Study: No Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Claims

Papers do not support claims that it's human-caused or will have catastrophic impact.

From "Study: No Scientific Consensus on Global Warming Claims" posted 9/4/07 at citizenLink.org

A comprehensive survey of climate-change research reveals a lack of consensus in the scientific community on whether global warming is caused by human activity or will have any significant impact. Less than half of the recent papers in a major scientific journal agree even “implicitly” with those notions.

Researchers examined published between 2004 and 2007. They found that only 38 percent of scientists accepted claims about global warming without question. Forty-eight percent were neutral.

Ken Green, a climate change expert at the American Enterprise Institute, called it as a rebuttal to claims of "consensus" on the issue.

"The climate is warming," he said. "We’re unclear on what the major causes are.”

Notably, just one of the 528 papers examined makes any reference to global warming producing catastrophic results.

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