Does the scientific community - scientists - (MAJORITY) really agree that Global Warming is happening?

Question

He says to follow the link.

||

v

Answer 1

Yes.  Virtually every scientist agrees it's happening, and almost all climate scientists agree that humans are the primary cause.  For proof, see the 'Consensus' section in the link below.

Answer 2

Yep.

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.  Most of these people's livelihoods (particularly the eminent NAS scientists) do NOT depend on global warming.

The scientific literature has few "skeptical" papers (there've been a very few since this study):

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

Outside of a few phony Internet "petitions" which are just a list of unverifiable names, there's no evidence to the contrary.  The bottom line:

"The fact that the community overwhelmingly supports the consensus is evidenced by picking up any copy of Journal of Climate or similar, any scientific program at the meetings, or simply going to talk to scientists. I challenge you, if you think there is some un-reported division, show me the hundreds of abstracts that support your view - you won't be able to. You can argue whether the consensus is correct, or what it really implies, but you can't credibly argue it doesn't exist."

NASA's Gavin Schmidt

Answer 3

All of the SCIENTIFIC organizations listed on this link endorse the consensus view on global warming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_...

And before anyone throws a fit about my source being wikipedia, please note that this page is well cited. Feel free to check the sources out for yourself!

Answer 4

yes, a huge majority agree it is real. and so do millions of people in sub saharan africa, australia etc. who are already noticing the effects.

nice site. thanks.

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics

Answer 5

No...just those who's livelihoods depend on it do.

Answer 6

70 rides again - That's quite humorous that you attack Dana for his link, yet you fail to provide any link to support your own assertions.

From the Max Planck society web-site:

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsD...

"The fundamental problem still remaining is the global large-scale anthropogenic burning of fossil fuels."

http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsD...

"However, researchers at the MPS have shown that the Sun can be responsible for, at most, only a small part of the warming over the last 20-30 years."

CSIRO stands by the IPCC report:

http://www.csiro.au/science/ps38v.html

I don't have any significant links to CERN, but here's some other US science organizations that agree global warming is happening:

NASA

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/G...

NOAA

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/glob...

Answer 7

A consensus does not make a fact, it just means a agreement from a select grouping. Unfortunately it turns into legal ramifications, where at least two individuals can do a peer review. Peer reviews have been question in the past and are still under going scrutiny from outside parties.Judges allow immunity,  whether the facts agree with popular opinion or not, or whether the facts can be substantiated. There are many instances where no prove has been offered, but accepted theorem from the reviewing group will have the finale say. It doesn't matter if it's right, wrong or in between. It's just legalistic life. You can't get around it.

Answer 8

No, even many scientist who contributed to the IPCC refute the theory.

http://billwangard.blogspot.com/2007/05/...

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F...

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?id=50

http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?op...

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/...

http://www.climate-resistance.org/2007/1...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008...

Answer 9

as late as too weeks ago 31,000 SCIENTISTS from around the world said that Global Warming is such a fake,

There is no scientific evidence on global warming, the only evidence there is was Al Gores movie about the falling ice caps,  turns out that they were hollywood and that they were fake

Answer 10

Yep.  The overwhelming majority of climate scientists and their institutions agree on the basic facts of global warming:  that the global mean temperature has risen significantly over the past century and that most of the warming over the past 50 years was caused by human CO2 emissions.  (The warming in the 1st half of the 20th century was due to a combination of factors, including the sun.)

There is a lot of disagreement on what will happen over the next 100 years (because it's difficult to predict), but I haven't heard of a single *reputable* scientific institution that doesn't think global warming is happening as a result of human carbon emissions.

As for the institutions you named, yes both CSIRO and Max Planck agree that global warming is happening.  So do all other climate science institutes.  CERN is focussed on particle physics not climate science, so doesn't have an official opinion on global warming I don't think (it's not their field).

Answer 11

No they dont. They used to, a couple years ago, but then they found out that the man who made An Inconvenient Truth was Al Gore.

LOL! Dana thats just funny... You lose all your credibility when you use YOUR wiki as an "outside" source!

Then they changed their minds.