Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later

@article{Myers2021ConsensusRQ,  title={Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later},  author={Krista F. Myers and Peter T. Doran and John Cook and John E. Kotcher and Teresa A. Myers},  journal={Environmental Research Letters},  year={2021},  volume={16},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:239047650}}
The scientific consensus on human-caused global warming has been a topic of intense interest in recent decades. This is in part due to the important role of public perception of expert consensus, which has downstream impacts on public opinion and support for mitigation policies. Numerous studies, using diverse methodologies and measures of climate expertise, have quantified the scientific consensus, finding between 90% and 100% agreement on human-caused global warming with multiple studies… 

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