Hey look, it's a climate change thread!

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(01-20-2017, 03:29 AM)Dill Wrote: If you are not a scientist, you might find the political history of climate change denial more interesting than the science itself--especially the effort to confuse the public regarding climate science.

But as to the oft referenced scientific consensus, a good place to start is NASA's official position:                        http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
They also have a climate change tutorial which is a public service.

But there are dozens of sources on this consensus Check chapter 4 here:
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3YMUAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA105&dq=consensus+on+climate+change&ots=MwHEg_0cBM&sig=bkHN_MiIAfQmdBzwEr29OCxqBUU#v=onepage&q=consensus%20on%20climate%20change&f=false

Scientists check the consensus themselves here. http://www.pnas.org/content/107/27/12107.full
Abstract: "A broad analysis of the climate scientist community itself, the distribution of credibility of dissenting researchers relative to agreeing researchers, and the level of agreement among top climate experts has not been conducted and would inform future ACC discussions. Here, we use an extensive dataset of 1,372 climate researchers and their publication and citation data to show that (i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field surveyed here support the tenets of ACC outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers."

Thanks for the links.  I will check out NASA's position, but for now, this seems to be a very credible argument in favor of scientific consensus on climate change.