Exposing Denial

Consensus of Papers

What does peer-reviewed literature have to say about climate change? The seminal work of Naomi Oreskes in 2004 analysed peer-reviewed scientific papers and found unanimous scientific agreement. Follow-up research by the Skeptical Science team quantified the consensus in the scientific literature from 1991 to 2011, finding a 97% agreement.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Consensus of Papers, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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