Actually, I never go to Breif-fart and as a matter of fact you go on there more than I do.
Your going to get different stats from different scientists so get over it. The climate changes, whatever I dont care we cant change what has been going on for millions of years. We need to focus on whats really going to help people and real environment issues. Its not fair to scientists they cant have opposing views just cause Breif-fart posted something.
Your going to miss a home run if we dont prepare to adapt to nature. Hundreds of years from now our great great great grandchildren are going to curse at us for not preparing for them, whatever that is because we just dont know we cant even get the 7 day forecast right.
The climate changes, yes we get that, It is the RATE of that change which is worrying, and the fact that we are at the warmest the globe has been in over 2000+ years. Stop focusing on the fact that the climate is constantly changing - even the scientists are aware that it does. You keep honing in on that when it has been addressed repeatedly.
This is like someone having a small hole in their tyre for 10 years and is used to having to pump it up every so often vs. a complete puncture that requires attention every few seconds and saying that he shouldn't fix it because it has always been like that.
If you are also comparing predicting the weather to climate change, then that is just being ignorant for the sake of being ignorant.
Someone earlier also made mention that the 97% figure was basically made up:
The scientific consensus is clear. Building on two previous studies (Doran and Zimmerman 2009 and Anderegg et al. 2010),
a landmark 2013 peer-reviewed study evaluated 10,306 scientists to confirm that over 97 percent climate scientists agree, and over 97 percent of scientific articles find that global warming is real and largely caused by humans.
That means only 3 scientists in 100, or 300 in 10,000 believe climate change is not man made.
Another study evaluating that consensus made that figure even more robust (again, landmark):
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Of those studies, most of them were performed outside the continental US.
The US and its citizens do not understand climate change:
But, overall, majorities of Americans appear skeptical of climate scientists.
No more than a third of the public gives climate scientists high marks for their understanding of climate change; even fewer say climate scientists understand the best ways to address climate change. And, while Americans trust information from climate scientists more than they trust that from other groups, fewer than half of Americans have “a lot” of trust in information from climate scientists (39%).
Republicans, particularly conservatives, are highly critical of climate scientists and more likely to ascribe negative rather than positive motives to the influences shaping scientists’ research.
Roughly half of adults (48%) say climate change is mostly due to human activity;
roughly three-in-ten say it is due to natural causes (31%) and another fifth say there is no solid evidence of warming (20%).
Again, this shows a lack of understanding.
A breakdown of the research and American thoughts on Global Warming can be found here:
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South Korea has 92% of the polled population believe Climate change is caused by humans
japan 91%
etc.