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Dec 2019
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CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)1. Old, but true!
For the google-impaired, here's a link to an article that talks about this. It's from 10 years ago ...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382
The 2009 PEW study it's quoting:
https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
I suspect a more recent poll would find even less than 6%!
flotsam
(3,268 posts)2. Please refresh my memory
What % of scientist deny climate change???
CloudWatcher
(1,851 posts)3. Maybe as high as 3% deny climate change
Perhaps 3%. But more likely 0% among those that actually study it.
A November 2019 study showed that the consensus among research scientists had grown to 100%, based on a review of 11,602 peer-reviewed articles published in the first 7 months of 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
https://qz.com/1069298/the-3-of-scientific-papers-that-deny-climate-change-are-all-flawed/
crickets
(25,986 posts)4. Very interesting. K&R