New
analysis of 40
years’ worth of satellite data shows that it’s a near-certainty that
humanity is actively causing global climate change.
Climate
deniers often claim, in the face of overwhelming evidence, that
the planet is heating up and natural disasters are becoming more intense and
common just because that’s the way it is — incorrectly insisting that
humanity’s love affair with fossil fuels has nothing to do with it. Now,
scientists say the chances that that’s true are just one in a million.
According
to the research by scientists at California’s Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, that’s because climate data has now reached a so-called “gold
standard” of scientific evidence — there’s only a one in a million chance that
ongoing climate change could have been caused by anything other than
humanity, reports Reuters.
“The
narrative out there that scientists don’t know the cause of climate change is
wrong,” Benjamin Santer, the scientist who led the research, told Reuters.
“We do.”