{"id":330,"date":"2006-07-25T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-25T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=330"},"modified":"2009-06-03T07:52:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:52:40","slug":"the-not-just-in-copenhagen-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/07\/the-not-just-in-copenhagen-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"The not-just-in-Copenhagen consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone who spends any time mixing with climate scientists or really looking at the literature knows that the scientific consensus<\/a> on the reality of human-related climate change is almost universal. Thus it is not at all surprising that methods designed to assess this consensus objectively – such as that undertaken by Oreskes in 2004<\/a> and recently re-asserted in the LA Times<\/a> (non-subscription version)<\/a> come up with very conclusive results. Similar studies could be done by looking at abstracts at big meetings (AGU, EGU etc.) or simply by talking to us. One could of course argue about what this means, but the existence of this consensus is not really up for debate. That doesn’t stop some people from trying of course, but these attempts have been rather embarrassing<\/a> at best. <\/p>\n

However, that didn’t prevent the latest incoherent and highly misleading press release<\/a> from the Senate EPW committee being issued to support the effort. I was recently in conversation with a journalist, who told me that she’d asked the ex-talk-radio author of these EPW releases, Mark Morano, what exactly they were suppposed to achieve. Morano <\/a> replied that it was to ‘get their message out’. When asked what that message was, no clear answer was forthcoming. That politicians indulge in politics is not surprising, but these releases are really scraping along the bottom. The only consolation is that they are being completely ignored by the media. Long may that consensus remain!<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who spends any time mixing with climate scientists or really looking at the literature knows that the scientific consensus on the reality of human-related climate change is almost universal. Thus it is not at all surprising that methods designed to assess this consensus objectively – such as that undertaken by Oreskes in 2004 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-rc-forum","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t