Climate scientists need to set the record straight: There is a scientific consensus that human‐caused climate change is happening

Abstract Nearly all climate scientists are convinced that human‐caused climate change is occurring, yet half of Americans do not know or do not believe that a scientific consensus has been reached. That such a large proportion of Americans do not understand that there is a near‐unanimous scientific consensus about the basic facts of climate change matters, a lot. This essay briefly explains why, and what climate science societies and individual climate scientists can do to set the record straight.