To gain an understanding of the level of scientific consensus on climate change, a recent study examined every article on climate change published in
peer-reviewed scientific journals over a 10-year period. Of the 928 articles on climate change the authors found,
not one of them disagreed with the consensus position that climate change is happening or is human-induced.
These findings contrast dramatically with the
popular media's reporting on climate change. One recent study analyzed coverage of climate change in four influential American newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, and Wall Street Journal) over a 14-year period. It found that
more than half of the articles discussing climate change gave equal weight to the scientifically discredited views of the skeptics...
While some level of debate is of course useful when looking at major social problems, eventually society needs to move on and actually address the issue. To do nothing about the problem of climate change is akin to letting a fire burn down a building because the precise temperature of the flames is unknown, or to not address the problem of smoking because one or two doctors still claim that it does not cause lung cancer.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_C...e/Skeptics.asp