Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds

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A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.

Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.

The survey considered the work of some 29,000 scientists published in 11,994 academic papers. Of the 4,000-plus papers that took a position on the causes of climate change only 0.7% or 83 of those thousands of academic articles, disputed the scientific consensus that climate change is the result of human activity, with the view of the remaining 2.2% unclear.

The study described the dissent as a "vanishingly small proportion" of published research.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/16/climate-research-nearly-unanimous-humans-causes

Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article

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1. A study from 2009 yielded the same number.

http://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107.short