Climate change is caused by humans. This is what 97% of actively publishing scientists believe. This is a consensus. I'm not saying I completely believe that humans aren't causing climate change, I'm just saying that people shouldn't believe what these scientists think just because it is a consensus. A consensus is not science. The consensus process is used for politics and organizations. NOT SCIENCE. A consensus is "A way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled". Science is not an idea decided by a group of people because they all agree. It can be decided by one person who is right. Most famous scientists are known for being the one person who breaks the consensus by producing reproducible results. Scientific consensus does not exist. Those are two completely different things put into a word so people will support them. Also, "scientific consensuses" have been wrong MANY times in the past. For example, saccharin, dietary fiber, fusion reactors, stratospheric ozone depletion, and even arguably acid rain and high-dose animal testing for carcinogenic ity were all consensuses that turned out to be wrong. Max Planck, a German physicist and one of the fathers of modern physics, said that “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.”
http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/29/agreeing-to-agree
http://scienceisneversettled.com/consen … t-science/