Journal de Chaource's Journal

Global warming: Science has spoken, part II
Summary: Out of about 3200 scientists surveyed, 5% were climate scientists. Out of these 160 climate scientists, 79 have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change. 77 out of these 79 agreed that human activity is a “significant contributing factor” to global warming; that's the "97%" of scientists. However, everybody else's opinions were not counted in this figure.

A 2012 poll of American Meteorological Society members reported a diversity of opinion. Of the 1,862 members who responded (a quarter of the organization), 59 percent stated that human activity was the primary cause of global warming, and 11 percent attributed the phenomenon to human activity and natural causes in about equal measure, while just under a quarter (23 percent) said enough is not yet known to make any determination.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425232/climate-change-no-its-not-97-percent-consensus-ian-tuttle