a survey of almost 90,000 peer-reviewed climate-related papers published since 2012 suggests that the consensus about human-caused climate change among scientists working in this field exceeds 99 per cent. This stands in sharp contrast to members of the 117th Congress of the United States, of whom more than a quarter both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate – including more than half the Republican members of the former and 60 per cent of the latter – have made statements either doubting or refusing to accept the scientific evidence for anthropogenic climate change.[106]
