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[RandySF]

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[CloudWatcher]

1. Old, but true!

For the google-impaired, here's a link to an article that talks about this. It's from 10 years ago ...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382

The 2009 PEW study it's quoting:

https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/

I suspect a more recent poll would find even less than 6%!

[flotsam]

2. Please refresh my memory

What % of scientist deny climate change???

[CloudWatcher]

3. Maybe as high as 3% deny climate change

Perhaps 3%. But more likely 0% among those that actually study it.

A November 2019 study showed that the consensus among research scientists had grown to 100%, based on a review of 11,602 peer-reviewed articles published in the first 7 months of 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
https://qz.com/1069298/the-3-of-scientific-papers-that-deny-climate-change-are-all-flawed/

[crickets]

4. Very interesting. K&R