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Originally Posted by Aliantha
BULLSHIT! Where in the world can you find any data suggesting that scientists are in any way unanimous about if and how much human habitation has contributed to global warming?
Are you stupid that you'd post such a thing and expect to be taken seriously? Come ON tw! Get real!!!
There is no concensus. That's why the issue is so contentious.
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Consensus doesnt mean unanimous......it means a majority opinion.
There is consensus among the thousands of scientists who contributed to the IPCC.
There is consensus among the member scientists of 30+ National Academies of Sciences around the world that have taken a position on global warming.
There is consensus among the member scientists of numerous scientific bodies like the World Meteorological Association , the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and dozens of other international and/or national scientific bodies.
That is not to say that in all of those instances that there are not minority opinions within those associations or scientific bodies
In terms of official positions of such national and international scientific associations, bodies and organizations....where they have taken a formal position, it is near unanimous in support of the finding that anthropogenic GHG emissions contribute to climate change or global warming.
With the release of the revised statement by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2007,
no remaining scientific body of national or international standing is known to reject the basic findings of human influence on recent climate change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienti...climate_change