{"id":16309,"date":"2014-03-19T12:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16309"},"modified":"2014-03-19T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T18:31:38","slug":"climate-scientists-declare-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/climate-scientists-declare-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Scientists Declare “We are the 97%!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have no doubt that climatology is a challenging field in and of itself, but climate scientists – particularly those focused on global warming<\/a> – also have to deal with consistent attempts to undermine their credibility. They’re just following the “consensus” (which, ya know, didn’t actually result from empirical evidence) because it’ll get them grants, or tenure, or publications… not because they’re promoting a conclusion reached from study of massive, varied amounts of data.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that would get old quickly. And most scientists really have no interests in policy or political debates: they just want to do their thing in their labs. But the constant questioning of the motives of climate scientists has pushed a number of them, along with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), to push back. The organization’s newest campaign on climate science, What We Know<\/a>, focuses on a common misconception (promoted by climate change deniers<\/a>) that there’s “a lot of disagreement among scientists” about the existence and causes of contemporary global warming. The very short answer to this error is “97%” – take a look at a response with just a bit more detail:<\/p>\n