Update (05/14/2014): Three days ago, on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver, with help from Bill Nye the Science Guy, depicted the divide in scientific opinion in a “statistically representative climate change debate.” It’s wonderfully funny. Check it out:
comic transcript:
scientists
panel 1. narrator: 97 out of 100 scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change. if they are right, climate disruption threatens our civilization and life as we know it. 3 out of 100 scientists deny these findings. if they are right, the other 97 may be part of a conspiracy to take away freedom and hobble democratic capitalism.
panel 2. narrator: which scientist would you prefer?
panel 3.
panel 4. man: do you have any other scientists?
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panel 1. narrator: 97 out of 100 scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change. if they are right, climate disruption threatens our civilization and life as we know it. 3 out of 100 scientists deny these findings. if they are right, the other 97 may be part of a conspiracy to take away freedom and hobble democratic capitalism.
panel 2. narrator: which scientist would you prefer?
panel 3.
panel 4. man: do you have any other scientists?
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