A new survey study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, finds there is widespread consensus that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. It also shows that those who've published more are more likely to agree with the consensus.
Interestingly, but unsurprisingly, it also shows that skeptics receive far more media attention than their mainstream counterparts. This highlights the ongoing 'bias-as-balance' problem in the media's presentation of climate science.
The lead author has a blog post explaining the findings, and Dana Nuccitelli has a piece focused on the media mismatch.
The survey has a lower total rate of consensus than the more-often cited 97% figure because it asked more specific questions that set a high bar for what's considered the consensus position. It finds that scientists with the most publications agree at a rate of 90%. Deniers, predictably, are claiming the study rebuts the 97% figure, when in fact the variation is due to the different approaches researchers used to define the nature of consensus.