Peter Doran

Enough! That's Peter Doran's opinion on the "debate" about a scientific consensus on climate change. There clearly is one -- a strong one. So why do the public and the politicians think otherwise? Why the big disconnect between what the vast majority of scientists know to be fact, and what the public thinks. Dr. Doran blames the way media reports on science, and he blames a few of the loud voices on the right. He presents an idea to change a lot of the minds of people who deny the scientific consensus on climate change which will hopefully lead politicians to action. Peter Doran is a…

Eos has just published the results of a survey of 3146 Earth Scientists conducted by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman. The graph below shows the results for this question: Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures? The 97% of active climatologists is 75 out of the 77 in the survey. Doran and Zimmermann say: While respondents' names are kept private, the authors noted that the survey included participants with well-documented dissenting opinions on global warming theory. I'm guessing that Lindzen and Spencer are the two…