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Climate Skeptics vs Scientific Consensus

I love information, and I especially appreciate a good depiction of information. 

This ginormous graphic, from Information is Beautiful, does an excellent job conveying a lot of info in an easily digestible manner:

Global Warming Skeptics versus Scientific Consensus

click for ginormo chart climate_skeptics_960.gif


Originally published at The Big Picture and reproduced here with the author’s permission.
 
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3 Responses to “Climate Skeptics vs Scientific Consensus”

GuestDecember 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Follow the money – mike mann (guess reference should be Dr. Michael E Mann, tough for me to address a con man that way) brought in 6 million dollars of grant money to Penn State in the 13 years he was there, 2 million of the 6 in the last 2 years.How much grant money would of he brought in if he was a skeptic?????!!!!Cap and trade is all about trying to create wealth or a commodity out of nothing.

Octavio RichettaDecember 13th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Great chart! My conclusion: There is no clear winner: Based on the information in the chart one cannot conclude one way or another: i.e., that CO2 is definitely causing global warming or that it definitely is.

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