{"id":156922,"date":"2010-01-08T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/what-does-consensus-look-like\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:10:04","slug":"what-does-climate-consensus-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/156922","title":{"rendered":"What does climate consensus look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Laskawy <\/p>\n<p>What with the Arctic Oscillation <a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/04\/polar-pressure-pattern-driving-chill-nearly-off-chart\/\">oscillating like mad<\/a> thus making the developed world colder than a&#8230; Well, really cold. And with meteorologists across the country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/cover_story\/hot_air.php\">proving<\/a> that talking about the weather for a living seems to make you less likely to understand climate. And with the American Farm Bureau sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/..\/..\/article\/scientists-demand-meeting-to-talk-climate-with-head-of-farm-bureau\">proving the same thing<\/a>, it&#8217;s enough to make you realize that there are an awful lot of climate doubters out there.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s time for a helpful reminder that the existence of anthropogenic climate change represents the consensus view, not just of climate scientists, but of <strong>all<\/strong> scientists in this country. And what does consensus look like, you may wonder? Thanks to the fantastic folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationisbeautiful.net\/2009\/climate-change-a-consensus-among-scientists\/\">Information is Beautiful<\/a>, I can show you. Consensus looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>The group on the right are climatologists only. The lonely figure in the far right corner is the denier. That&#8217;s what virtual unanimity looks like. The group on the left represents people from <strong>any scientific field<\/strong>. That small group in the left corner are the deniers. At a big wedding, they&#8217;d take up a single table.&nbsp; The data for the above image comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/tigger.uic.edu\/~pdoran\/012009_Doran_final.pdf\">this<\/a> paper [PDF]. All together now: 90% of <strong>all published US scientists<\/strong> agree that human-induced climate change exists! I feel compelled to point out that Proctor and Gamble built an entire decades-long marketing campaign over even <strong>lower<\/strong> support among dentists for their toothpaste.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/32000-scientists-dispute-global-warming\/\">32000 scientists dispute global warming?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/scientists-demand-meeting-to-talk-climate-with-head-of-farm-bureau\/\">Scientists demand meeting to talk climate with head of American Farm Bureau<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2009-12-19-climate-scientists-underwhelmed-by-copenhagen-accord\/\">Climate scientists underwhelmed by Copenhagen Accord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=1eea09f9a3529653af6e4e75f87a4e98&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=1eea09f9a3529653af6e4e75f87a4e98&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Laskawy What with the Arctic Oscillation oscillating like mad thus making the developed world colder than a&#8230; Well, really cold. And with meteorologists across the country proving that talking about the weather for a living seems to make you less likely to understand climate. And with the American Farm Bureau sort of proving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}