Study reveals scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change

[struggle4progress]

... Led by John Cook at the University of Queensland, the study has been published today, Thursday 16 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters ...

The findings are in stark contrast to the public's position on global warming; a 2012 poll* revealed that more than half of Americans either disagree, or are unaware, that scientists overwhelmingly agree that the Earth is warming because of human activity ...

"There is a gaping chasm between the actual consensus and the public perception. It's staggering given the evidence for consensus that less than half of the general public think scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.

"This is significant because when people understand that scientists agree on global warming, they're more likely to support policies that take action on it" ...

http://www.sciencecodex.com/study_reveals_scientific_consensus_on_anthropogenic_climate_change-112297

[Control-Z]

1. Thank you, greedy, stupid, republicans.

You've played an enormous roll in perpetuating this ignorance. And it will probably kill us all.

Damn it. This makes me sick. Our beautiful planet.

[leftyohiolib]

3. you know the planet will be fine it will rebound after we've gone extinct

[AverageJoe90]

5. Only problem is, we won't. Even nuclear war couldn't quite accomplish that...........

And that would have done quite a bit of damage to our numbers, even worse than any plausible AGW scenario.

Instead of pie-in-the-sky extinction theories, maybe we oughta focus more on actually mitigating the problem at hand, eh?

[leftyohiolib]

6. im not stopping anyone from doing anything, mitigate away,

[dimbear]

2. Rightwing disinformation machine, fossil fuel companies, fundamentalist religion:

unholy trinity.

[AverageJoe90]

4. Good post, thanks. n/t =)