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Despite strong agreement among a majority of climate scientists that human activities are contributing toglobal warming, media coverage still disproportionately includes the views of contrarian scientists, according to a study published in Environmental Science and Technology . In a survey of roughly 1,900 scientists, 90 percent of the respondents who had published more than 10 peer-reviewed climate science articles “explicitly agreed with anthropogenic greenhouse gases being the dominant driver of recent global warming.” However, when asked how often they were contacted by the media to comment on climate change issues, 30 percent of scientists who view greenhouse gases’ impact to be “insignificant or cooling” reported being featured frequently or very frequently in the media, as opposed to 15 percent of scientists who view greenhouse gases as strongly contributing to warming.