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Climate Change Facts
The Scientific Consensus
Most of us are not climate scientists, so we should refer to the experts. Expertise might be gained from a strong track record of publishing in reputable peer-reviewed journals or from working at a non-partisan institute or university. There are also multiple disciplines that have expertise in different areas, such as climate modeling, attribution, impacts, atmospheric physics, climatology, paleoclimatology, and oceanography. Finding the most appropriate expert is a crucial task for journalists.
At least six independent and peer-reviewed studies from 2004 and 2016 have found that between 90 percent and 100 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by humans. A summary of these studies and their methods was published in 2016 in the academic journal Environmental Research Letters.