‘Scientists are convinced that…’ No, it wasn't part of a cosmetics commercial, but a much repeated phrase in a book for youngsters by a very well known science journalist, warning of the dangers of global warming and the Greenhouse Effect. I was irritated by the book's dogmatic approach, so much so that an interview involving myself and the author was arranged for the BBC World Service—but more of that later.
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John Billingsley (1993) studied this question.