What Happened to Intellectual Curiosity?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33423/ajm.v24i2.7141Keywords:
management, climate change, global warming, ACC, AGW, climate consensus, climate skeptics, CO2 & climate, climate policy, climate warmists, intellectual curiosity, ACC hypothesis, 97% consensusAbstract
Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) is a contentious subject with two camps: the warmists and the skeptics. The warmists claim a 97% consensus among the world’s scientists. Climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer postulated that the so-called 97% consensus was not comprised of scientists who did an independent examination of the data but were merely not disputing the hypothesis. This paper examined the extent to which there was acceptance of the ACC hypothesis in the academic community and whether the skeptic position was acknowledged. The study found that the ACC hypothesis was overwhelmingly accepted with very little acknowledgement of the skeptic position.
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