Is there a scientific consensus about global warming? 22 Articles

by Lawrie Williams

I was a kid when I read the first warning about global warming in 1963, a tiny newspaper item about how extra CO2 would trap heat and warm the planet. It was an idea so simple that a child could understand it. Two decad...read more

by Anima Mundi

Consensus about what aspect of global warming? Does it exist? Are we causing it? What will be the result? There is definite scientific consensus that the phenomena exists. Increases in the average temperature of the earth ...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

From what I know following this problem, the agreement of the scientific community about the increased global warming in the next decades, within the year 2050, is nearly total. They agree on the fact that the climatic ...read more

by Kenneth Schortgen Jr

Scientific consensus is an oxymoron... there is no such thing as science based on opinion, it has to be based on fact and measurement. There however, is political consensus for Global Warming, and that is where the dang...read more

by N.W. Smith

Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," won an Academy Award for best documentary. And Al Gore is being treated like a rock star at Hollywood parties and when he testified in front of Congress. But has Al Gore's hype and ...read more

by Ian Loft

Debate regarding global warming is currently gagged by a powerful environmental lobby and populist opinion arguing that industrial processes and greenhouse gas emissions post industrial revolution are triggering significan...read more

by Rick Maerkle

The Fears that are being spread because of Climate Change In addition to these many documented predictions; is also a mass amount of current news media hype; of the so-called global warming on our planet? Many of us are...read more

by Royce Radcliffe

The first objection raised these days when it comes to the idea of taking action against global warming is that there is no consensus it even exists. This argument has been used for years and it has weight with a lot of pe...read more

by Michael Burgwin

CONSENSUS IS NOT UNANIMITY The battle lines for global warming policy have been drawn and nowhere is the debate more contentious than around the issue of scientific consensus. To be sure, there is much ado about the hum...read more

by Mark Luke

In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore writes of tackling man-made global warming: "When we do rise, it will fill our spirits and bind us together. Those who are now suffocating in cynicism and despair will be able to breathe f...read more

by Rex Trulove

There are two very important points to make about this, and we will look at them one at a time. Is there scientific consensus about global warming? Absolutely and undeniably NO! Let's look at why. The position of "...read more

by Rob Bryant

There is no scientific consensus about global warming. On the one side are those who believe that global warming is caused primarily by greenhouse gases and other emissions. On the other side are those who claim that the n...read more

by Kevin Mccall

It troubles me to know that society is apparently willing to accept consensus over fact when it comes to scientific research. I have found that there are about as many scientists who do not agree with the latest findings ...read more

by Nancy L. Young-Houser

Complicating scientific efforts to predict how much warming of the Earth's climate will occur in the future is the discovery of a large, previously unknown, zone of particles around clouds, transitioning from cloud droplet...read more

by Will Kester

There is a consensus among scientists that global warming is real and increasing. There is consensus that we, the people, are causing it. There is some consensus that we, the people, can stop it. There is, though, a lac...read more

by The revolution

There has been a consensus on global warming for the past twenty years it's just specialty groups hiring fake scientists to make up lies about global warming, this is the real problem major corporations don't want the fact...read more

by I Like Chocolate

I am a scientist. I regularly read science journals and keep up to date with emerging science and technology. Lets get this straight; FACT: There is NO doubt that global warming exists and is a problem. I do not know a ...read more

by R. Stewart

Perhaps I'm a bit of a curmudgeon or maybe I've been in the sun too long, but just what are we afraid is going to happen if the global temperatures rise. Haven't enough scientists explained to us till blue in the face...read more

by Michael Wagner

Consensus? How about the 17,200 scientists who have signed the petition urging Congress NOT to adopt the Kyoto protocols? See this link: http://www.oism.org/pprojec t/ In a few years we will look back on this period in s...read more

by Cretia Ussery

I don't believe that there is a consensus about global warming at all. Anyone can find a expert to back up their beliefs if the price is right. I think that people have politicized this message so much that it is hard to s...read more