Neil deGrasse Tyson Chastises Media For Giving 'Flat Earthers' Equal Time in Climate Change Debate

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40. The claim that the Earth was the center of the solar system

was from an essentially prescientific time. Early science, with strong resistance from religion, discovered that the Sun is the center of the solar system. Early science also discovered that heavier objects don't fall faster, ignoring air resistance. Those were early achievements of science.

Copernicus and Galileo were persecuted by the church, not science.

Science isn't done in the media. Science requires the scientific process. The overwhelming consensus among scientists, using the scientific method, is that man-caused climate change is real. Any other explanation for why the Earth's climate is changing should be accomplished through the scientific method.

Survey finds 97% of climate science papers agree warming is man-made:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange

Based on our abstract ratings, we found that just over 4,000 papers took a position on the cause of global warming, 97.1% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. In the scientist self-ratings, nearly 1,400 papers were rated as taking a position, 97.2% of which endorsed human-caused global warming. Many papers captured in our literature search simply investigated an issue related to climate change without taking a position on its cause.

Our survey found that the consensus has grown slowly over time, and reached about 98% as of 2011. Our results are also consistent with several previous surveys finding a 97% consensus amongst climate experts on the human cause of global warming.

...However, vested interests have long realized this and engaged in a campaign to misinform the public about the scientific consensus. For example, a memo from communications strategist Frank Luntz leaked in 2002 advised Republicans,

"Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate"