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Scientific consensus on climate change - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 8 facts
referenceThe chapter 'The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We're Not Wrong?' by Naomi Oreskes was published in the book 'Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren' by MIT Press in 2007 (pp. 65–66, ISBN 978-0-262-54193-0).
quoteNaomi Oreskes stated in 2007 that scientists generally focus their discussions on questions that are still disputed or unanswered rather than on matters about which everyone agrees.
accountNaomi Oreskes analyzed the abstracts of 928 scientific papers on 'global climate change' published between 1993 and 2003.
measurementOf the 928 scientific papers on global climate change analyzed by Naomi Oreskes, 75% explicitly supported the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change or accepted it as a given, while 25% focused on research methods or paleoclimate analysis; no abstract explicitly rejected the consensus.
measurementOf the 928 scientific papers on 'global climate change' analyzed by Naomi Oreskes, 75% explicitly supported the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change or accepted it as a given, while 25% focused on research methods or paleoclimate analysis; no abstract explicitly rejected the scientific consensus.
claimNone of the 928 scientific paper abstracts on global climate change analyzed by Naomi Oreskes explicitly rejected the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change.
measurementOf the 928 scientific paper abstracts on global climate change analyzed by Naomi Oreskes, 25% focused on research methods or paleoclimate analysis.
accountNaomi Oreskes analyzed the abstracts of 928 scientific papers on global climate change published between 1993 and 2003.
Isn't there a lot of disagreement among climate scientists about ... climate.gov Feb 3, 2020 4 facts
referenceNaomi Oreskes authored 'The scientific consensus on climate change: How do we know we're not wrong?' in the book Climate Modelling in 2018.
claimNaomi Oreskes reviewed 928 abstracts published between 1993 and 2003 regarding human activities warming the Earth's surface and found that none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position.
claimScience historian Naomi Oreskes published the results of her examination of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) database regarding scientific agreement on climate change in the journal Science in 2004.
referenceNaomi Oreskes published 'The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change' in the journal Science in 2004.
Social Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Aug 28, 2019 1 fact
referenceNaomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway authored the 2011 book 'Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming', which investigates how scientific consensus was challenged on specific public issues.