Posted on 10/04/2016 4:58:30 PM PDT by upchuck
Nearly three-quarters of Americans don’t trust that there is a large “scientific consensus” amongst climate scientists on human behavior being the cause of climate change, according to an in-depth survey on “the politics of climate” released Tuesday by Pew Research Center.
According to the survey, only 27 percent of Americans agree that “almost all” climate scientists say that human behavior is mostly responsible for climate change, while 35 percent say that “more than half” of climate scientists agree on this. An additional 35 percent of those surveyed say that fewer than half (20%) or almost no (15%) climate scientists believe that human behavior is the main contributing factor in climate change.
Pew contrasted this to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which “stated in the forward to its 2013 report, ‘the science now shows with 95 percent certainty that human activity is the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century.’”
Additionally, Americans were skeptical about the expertise of climate scientists.
Just 33 percent of those surveyed said that climate scientists understand “very well” whether global climate change is happening, another 39 percent said climate scientists understand this “fairly well.” Twenty-seven percent of those surveyed say climate scientists don’t understand this “too well” or don’t understand it at all.
When it comes to the causes of global climate change only 28 percent say climate scientists understand them “very well” while 31 percent say the scientists understand them “not too well” or “not at all.”
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These “climate scientists” have been caught rigging the “science”, so it is pretty much not science.
The part of the US where I live has been both tropical and glacial. Before there were SUVs.
The climate on earth has always changed and humans have nothing to do with it.
If you want something to worry about, worry about surviving the next Ice Age, we are overdue for another.
Meanwhile some libs want “climate change” denial (name changed from man-caused global warming when it was proven to be a hoax) to be a criminal offense. Leonardo DiCaprio said skeptics (he would call them deniers) should be disqualified from holding public office.
No one really believes in this stuff and the bureaucrats and scientists don’t care - as long as Big Government keeps right on shelling out taxpayer dollars to them and keeps them in clover getting rich off it.
You know, maybe, just maybe America is waking up. First, they have turned off the Emperor’s Games (NFL). Now, they are awake to the climate scam. Finally, they are realizing the media are the PR arm of the DNC.
Perhaps we can save the country.
Global warming is a scam to redistribute wealth from the developed world to the Third World.
(almost everything the govt spends) is a sham to collect our taxpayer dollars to study something that doesn’t exist.
Science by definition is not majority rule. The very phrase “scientific consensus” is a contradiction of terms.
Maybe because science isn’t done by consensus.
It’s more likely we are in lull the current one. Lulls can last long enough to kick off a civilization or two.
but we’re still going to pay through the nose thanks to the Insane Politicians
“These “climate scientists” have been caught rigging the “science”, so it is pretty much not science”
Yes, and the real scientists who proved their data was highly questionable were fired for speaking out. i.e. A prof at Oregon State
Climate Change Religion is a big fat HOAX perpetrated by socialistic globalists.
Science has been hijacked.
Consensus is not a repeatable experiment, so it is not testable. Ergo, it violates the scientific method . . . thus it is not science.
Yea, ask the warming nuts what they’d rather have to deal with: a warm climate, or an ice age.
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING ...
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/418542137899491328?lang=en
This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop.
Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.
Here in Washington state we’ve had the same largest polluter for 35 years:
Mt St. Helens.
Only after running it through the fingers of Progressive politicians first.
For a second there I saw Michelle Obama walking away from Elton John.
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