Apparently just 1 in 9,136 isn't enough for some people. Here's a chart filched from
Grist based on peer-reviewed climate articles from November, 2012 to December, 2013.
Geochemist James Powell did the research on publications from November 2012 and December 2013. (But if a year-long sample isn’t good enough for you, Powell previously examined 21 years of peer-reviewed literature and found that only 24 out of 13,950 articles — or two-tenths of a percent — came out and rejected human-caused climate change.)
The lone dissident, S. V. Avakyan, wrote in Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “The contribution of the greenhouse effect of carbon-containing gases to global warming turns out to be insignificant.”
Avakyan, it's noted, gave away a certain bias when, on the first page of his report, he wrote, "
The switch of world powers first to decreasing the use of fossil fuel…may lead to economic collapse for Russia…"
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