<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett:</div>
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<div>This article from EOS ('<em>Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change</em>', <strong>Volume 90</strong>, Number 3, 2009, available to American Geophysical Union members) which is quoted by Realclimate.org lower down and is available to the public at the website first below, claims that only 58 percent of the public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97% of specialists surveyed. This is a very recent effort to quantify the scientific consensus on the validity of anthropogenic climate change and contrast this consensus with public opinion:</div>
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<div><a href="http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf">http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/03/a-potentially-useful-book-lies-damn-lies-science/#more-661">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/03/a-potentially-useful-book-lies-damn-lies-science/#more-661</a></div>
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<h2>29 March 2009</h2>
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<h3 class="storytitle" id="post-661">A potentially useful book - Lies, Damn lies & Science</h3>
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<p><img alt="Lies, Damned Lies, and Science" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51G3P7F0F8L._BO2,204,203,200_PI.jpg" width="30%" align="left">According to a recent article in Eos (<a href="http://www.agu.org/journals/eo/eo0903/2009EO030002.pdf#anchor"><font color="#66aa55">Doran and Zimmermann</font></a>, '<em>Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change</em>', <strong>Volume 90</strong>, Number 3, 2009; p. 22-23 - only available for AGU members <strong>- update: a public link to the article is <a href="http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf"><font color="#66aa55">here</font></a></strong>), about 58% of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97% of specialists surveyed. The disproportion between these numbers is a concern, and one possible explanation may be that the science literacy among the general public is low. Perhaps Sherry Seethaler's new book <em>'Lies, Damn Lies, and Science'</em> can be a useful contribution in raising the science literacy?</p>
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