Image: 20220629 Public estimates of scientific consensus on climate change - horizontal bar chart

Description: Bar chart showing public estimates of scientific consensus on climate change in comparison to actual scientific consensus. Source: Public perceptions on climate change. PERITIA Trust EU - The Policy Institute of Kings College London 4 (June 2022). Archived from the original on 15 July 2022. Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220715062933/https://peritia-trust.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/4-Climate-change_EU.pdf Related article: Public Hugely Underestimate Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, PERITIA Study Finds. PERITIA Trust EU - The Policy Institute of Kings College London (29 June 2022). Archived from the original on 30 June 2022. Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20220630171117/https://peritia-trust.eu/public-hugely-underestimate-scientific-consensus-on-climate-change-peritia-study-finds/ From source: "Carried out by the Policy Institute at King’s College London as part of a European Commission project investigating public trust in expertise, this latest study is based on survey data from over 12,000 people across six countries." Source quotes consensus at 99.9% scientific consensus, citing Lynas, M et al (2021) ‘Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature,’ Environmental Research Letters 16(11): 1-7. See File:20211103 Academic studies of scientific consensus - global warming, climate change - vertical bar chart - en.svg for sourcing re scientific consensus, which includes the following consensus studies: Powell et al. (20 November 2019). "Scientists Reach 100% Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming". Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 37 (4): 183–184. DOI:10.1177/0270467619886266. Lynas et al. (19 October 2021). "Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature". Environmental Research Letters 16 (11): 114005. Myers, Krista F.; Doran, Peter T.; Cook, John; Kotcher, John E.; Myers, Teresa A. (20 October 2021). "Consensus revisited: quantifying scientific agreement on climate change and climate expertise among Earth scientists 10 years later". Environmental Research Letters 16 (10): 104030. DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac2774. Suggested caption: The public substantially underestimates the degree of scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change.[cite Kings College] Studies from 2019–2021 found scientific consensus to range from 98.7–100%.[Cites: Powell, Lynas, Myers] Most SVG code for this file was automatically generated using the "Horizontal bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Minor additions and nudging were performed manually in text editor.

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