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Scientific consensus on climate change - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 12 facts
claimEconomist Richard Tol criticized the methodology of the 2013 John Cook study, arguing that it was executed without controls and measurements of rater reliability.
referenceRasmus E. Benestad, Dana Nuccitelli, Stephan Lewandowsky, Katharine Hayhoe, Hans Olav Hygen, Rob van Dorland, and John Cook published the paper 'Learning from mistakes in climate research' in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology in November 2016.
accountJohn Cook examined 11,944 abstracts from peer-reviewed scientific literature published between 1991 and 2011 that matched the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'.
claimJohn Cook and his co-authors concluded that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on anthropogenic global warming is a vanishingly small proportion of published research and that the fundamental science of anthropogenic global warming is no longer controversial among the publishing science community.
claimJohn Cook and other researchers asserted that the results from their 2013 study were consistent with other studies published before and since.
quoteJohn Cook and his co-authors concluded that the fundamental science of anthropogenic global warming is no longer controversial among the publishing science community, stating: "the fundamental science of AGW is no longer controversial among the publishing science community and the remaining debate in the field has moved on to other topics."
claimJohn Cook and other researchers stated that the results from their 2013 paper were consistent with other studies published before and since.
measurementIn a self-rating survey of authors, 35.5% of authors rated their own papers as expressing no position on anthropogenic global warming, while 97.2% of the remaining authors endorsed the consensus position.
perspectiveEconomist Richard Tol criticized the methodology of the 2013 study by John Cook et al., stating it was executed without controls and measurements of rater reliability.
referenceA 2016 study titled 'Learning from mistakes in climate research' followed up on John Cook's 2013 paper by examining the quality of the 3% of peer-reviewed papers that had rejected the consensus view.
measurementJohn Cook and his co-authors found that 66.4% of the 11,944 abstracts examined expressed no position on anthropogenic global warming, but of those that did express a position, 97.1% endorsed the consensus that humans are contributing to global warming.
referenceIn 2013, John Cook analyzed 11,944 peer-reviewed abstracts from 1991 to 2011 and found that 97.1% of papers expressing a position on anthropogenic global warming endorsed the consensus that humans are contributing to global warming.
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claimThe authors of 'Monsoon as Method' (Lindsay Bremner, Beth Cullen, Christina Geros, Harshavardhan Bhat, Anthony Powis, John Cook, and Tom Benson) argue that climate is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings, and bodies, rather than being an inert backdrop to urban life.