GLOBAL WARMING WATCH….Are humans responsible for global warming? Naomi Oreskes recently conducted a literature review of every climate change article published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 to find out if anyone disagreed about this.

Answer: nope. Of the papers that addressed the subject at all, every single one agreed with the consensus scientific view that human emissions are causing warming. Chris Mooney has the details.

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