How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

ABSTRACT Only two-thirds of Americans are confident in the knowledge that global warming is happening, and a bare majority understand that it’s mostly caused by human activities. One-third of Americans continue to believe that global warming is mostly natural. In reality, the scientific evidence demonstrating that global warming is happening and human-caused is overwhelming, which is why there is a 90 to 100 percent expert consensus on human-caused global warming.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Publication date

  2020-05-03

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/00963402.2020.1751969
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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