Bart Verheggen: Scientists’ Views about Attribution of Global Warming

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Video description

Less than 10% of Americans are aware that there's an overwhelming consensus on global warming. There's a huge gap between the agreement the public thinks there is between scientists and the actual agreement among scientists. Due to the importance of this lack of awareness several studies investigated the agreement among scientists. One of the latest papers studying this was Scientists’ Views about Attribution of Global Warming by Bart Verheggen. Verheggen surveyed over 1,800 scientists and found that a large majority of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of global warming. In this interview Verheggen talks about the results they found and their meaning.

Sources

  1. Verheggen 2014 - Scientists’ Views about Attribution of Global Warming (archived)
  2. Anderegg 2010 - Expert credibility in climate change (archived)
  3. Doran 2009 - Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (archived)
  4. Cook 2013 - Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature (archived)
  5. Boykoff 2013 - ‘Wise contrarians’: a keystone species in contemporary climate science, politics and policy (archived)
  6. IPCC AR4 2007 - WG1 chapter 2: Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing (archived)

Media resources

  1. Thumbnail: Five-Year Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2013 (archived)
  2. Climate Change 2007: Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis (archived)
  3. Mindthings - Our Eyes Are Blue (album Above Everything)
  4. Mindthings - Exponential Tears (album Life's Path)

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