{"id":2358,"date":"2013-05-17T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2013-05-17T15:36:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:36:48","slug":"ignoring-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/blurts\/2013\/05\/17\/ignoring-the-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring the science?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I assign several meta-analyses in my grad courses. This approach is a reasonable way to make sense of a large number of studies that include some inconsistency in results. Recently, a summary of thousands of studies<\/a> addressing climate change was released and well over 90% supported that human activities play a significant role.<\/p>\n

A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1% agreed that climate change<\/a> is caused by human activity.<\/p>\n

Authors of the survey, published on Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters<\/a>, said the finding of near unanimity provided a powerful rebuttal to climate contrarians who insist the science of climate change remains unsettled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some who would like to ignore this avalanche of data for political or economic gain are pretty much in the same camp still promoting smoking.<\/p>\n

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