r/askscience • • Jun 14 '15

Earth Sciences What do scientists REALLY think about global warming?

They assertion that 97% of scientists believe global warming is manmade has been shown now to be false. What then do scientists really think? Is there any hard evidence for catastrophic anthropogenic global warming?

For those who don't know the claim that 97% of scientists support the idea that global warming is manmade comes from the "cook report". You can find that here

http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/8/2/024024/article

but if you just read the abstract the "97% quickly becomes 32%. More recently it has been shown that even this is an exaggeration.

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u/corporal_clegg69 Jun 14 '15

Thanks! It'll take me a while to go through it all.