A lot of those who are convinced that global warming is causing a "climate emergency" base their belief on what they have been told about "97% of scientists" agreeing that it is true. The article that I link to below looks closely at the evidence for this statement and finds that it is completely false.
Link: “97% Consensus” — What Consensus? - CO2 Coalition
The confirmed high level expertise has 100% confirmation that humans are responsible for the warming on earth. The lower the expertise, the level of doubt is still a clear minority.
ReplyDeletehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2774/meta
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LETTER • THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ISOPEN ACCESS
Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later
Krista F Myers1, Peter T Doran4,1, John Cook2,3, John E Kotcher3 and Teresa A Myers3
Published 20 October 2021 • © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 16, Number 10
Citation Krista F Myers et al 2021 Environ. Res. Lett. 16 104030
We sent 10 929 invitations to participate in our survey to a verified email list of geosciences faculty at reporting academic and research institutions and received 2780 responses. In addition to analyzing the raw survey results, we independently quantify how many publications self-identified climate experts published in the field of climate change research and compare that to their survey response on questions about climate change. As well as a binary approach classifying someone as 'expert' or 'non-expert', we also look at expertise as a scale. We find that agreement on anthropogenic global warming is high (91% to 100%) and generally increases with expertise. Out of a group of 153 independently confirmed climate experts, 98.7% of those scientists indicated that the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels. Among those with the highest level of expertise (independently confirmed climate experts who each published 20+ peer reviewed papers on climate change between 2015 and 2019) there was 100% agreement that the Earth is warming mostly because of human activity.