New research published this year found that among peer-reviewed climate papers stating a position on anthropogenic global warming, over 97% endorsed the scientific consensus that humans were causing climate change. Meanwhile, the public think there is a 50:50 debate among climate scientists. How did this “consensus gap” arise and can it be closed?
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John Cook (2013) studied this question.
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