Consensus on consensus: A synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Cook, John ^a,b,c   Oreskes, Naomi ^d   Doran, Peter T ^e   Anderegg, William R L ^f,g   Verheggen, Bart ^h   Maibach, Ed W ⁱ   Carlton, J Stuart ^j   Lewandowsky, Stephan ^b,k   Skuce, Andrew G ^c,l   Green, Sarah A ^m   Nuccitelli, Dana ^c   Jacobs, Peter ⁱ   Richardson, Mark ^n,o   Winkler, Bärbel ^c   Painting, Rob ^c   Rice, Ken ^p  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SKEPTICAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Netherlands)

ⁱ GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^l Salt Spring Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^m MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^o CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

anthropogenic global warming; climate change; scientific consensus

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; GLOBAL WARMING; SURVEYS; TECTONICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SCIENCE; CLIMATE SCIENTISTS; RESEARCH PAPERS; SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL WARMING; PUBLISHING; SURVEY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84964691648     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002     Document Type: Article

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