{"id":622,"date":"2013-05-16T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/?p=622"},"modified":"2013-05-16T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T08:34:13","slug":"climate-science-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/2013\/05\/16\/climate-science-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate science consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Michael Shermer, the following <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/1748-9326\/8\/2\/024024\/article\">paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11\u2009944 climate abstracts from 1991\u20132011 matching the topics &#8216;global climate change&#8217; or &#8216;global warming&#8217;. 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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I confess that I am curious about the ones expressing no position &#8211; that&#8217;d be something to examine further. \u00a0But as I keep trying to tell my rightist colleagues, you only end up looking like fools when you try to argue against this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Michael Shermer, the following paper: We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apgw","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/prussian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}