Exposing Denial

Consensus of Scientists

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists agree that humans are causing climate change. How do we know that? This video covers several studies showing the high levels of agreement about anthropogenic global warming among scientists and concludes by debunking the infamous “Global Warming Petition Project.”

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Consensus of Scientists, 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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