Editor's Note: This article was completed as an assignment for a class in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. <\/p>\n
The noise of talking in the crowded classroom gradually subsided as Lou Wojcinski, K-State assistant teaching scholar of chemistry, displayed the following question through the class projection system: <\/p>\n
\"Do you think most scientists agree with one another about whether or not global warming is happening, or do you think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists on the issue?\" <\/p>\n
Wojcinski then instructed the students to answer the question with their I-clickers; 70 percent of the class responded that there is significant disagreement among scientists, whereas only 30 percent said that the issue is settled. <\/p>\n
As the political global warming debate surges, this poll raises the question of whether or not scientists agree on the issue. <\/p>\n
Wojcinski said roughly 90 percent of scientists agree that global warming is occurring. <\/p>\n
\"Projections about the future are much harder to do; I would say there is less agreement there,\" Wojcinski said. <\/p>\n
Wojcinski said there are a variety of factors that contribute to global warming. <\/p>\n
\"There is a human contribution to increased temperatures,\" he said. \"I think it is important to say that it is not just a human contribution. There are natural contributions to the temperatures that we have, and I think that what some people think when they hear that it's a human-caused problem they think it's just a human-caused problem, which sounds a little silly. I think part of the hesitancy in accepting the science comes from people interpreting it as solely a human problem.\" <\/p>\n
Besides disagreeing about what scientists think, students at K-State also have differing views about what global warming is and its implications for the future. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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