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NickB79

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3. What consensus are you questioning?
Tue Feb 25, 2014, 09:31 PM
Feb 2014

The consensus in the scientific community has been solid for years that global warming is real, is primarily caused by human activity, and is bound to get worse in the coming decades.

As such, there has been no threat to that consensus, especially not from studies such as these.

The consensus that IS being threatened is the one that says we can hold climate change below dangerous levels (we've ALREADY passed that threshold) and that we can manage to keep a global economy like the one we've become accustomed to working while the planet warms 3-5C over the next century.

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