‘Overwhelming’ consensus for manmade warming – review

A review of thousands of studies published over 21 years found “overwhelming” and growing consensus among scientists that humans are mostly to blame for global warming, its authors said Thursday, May 16. This contradicts a widely held view that scientists are deeply divided on the topic — a misconception that complicates efforts to win public backing for climate policy, the authors wrote in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Researchers from the United States, Australia and Canada reviewed more than 4,000 scientific papers that expressed a position on whether humans were mostly to blame for recent global warming. The papers, published between 1991 and 2011, were written by more than 10,000 scientists. Just over 97 percent agreed that manmade warming was a reality.

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