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Climate scientists need to set the record straight: There is a scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is happening

Anthony Leiserowitz and 2 other contributors

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    Publication Date
    MAY
    Journal
    EARTHS FUTURE
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EF000226
    Citation
    Maibach, E. ., Myers, T. ., & Leiserowitz, A. . (2014). Climate scientists need to set the record straight: There is a scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is happening. EARTHS FUTURE, 2(5), 295-298. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EF000226 (Original work published 2024)

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    Anthony Leiserowitz Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer, and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)

    Abstract

    Nearly all climate scientists are convinced that human-caused climate change is occurring, yet half of Americans do not know or do not believe that a scientific consensus has been reached. That such a large proportion of Americans do not understand that there is a near-unanimous scientific consensus about the basic facts of climate change matters, a lot. This essay briefly explains why, and what climate science societies and individual climate scientists can do to set the record straight.