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The 97% figure comes from two independent studies, each employing different methodologies. One study surveyed all climate scientists who have publicly signed declarations supporting or rejecting the consensus (Anderegg 2010). Another study directly asked earth scientists the following question “Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?” They found 97% of actively publishing climate scientists answered yes (Doran 2009). As “climate scientists actively publishing peer-reviewed research on climate change” doesn’t really roll off the tongue, I abbreviated that down to “climate experts”.

One feature of Doran’s survey results is that while 97% of climate expert said “yes, humans are causing global warming”, only 1% said “no, we’re not”. The other 2% were unsure:

Response to the survey question “Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?” (Doran 2009)

I’ve indicated the “I’m not sure” portion in the “97 out of 100 climate experts” infographic with grey colouring.

# Cf. Guide to Skepticism

Social media managers seem to keep popping up everywhere online, and we thought we would create a piece highlighting (with some degree of creative license of course) the types of activities they do on a daily basis.  This piece was created for Socialcast and has been tweeted and re-tweeted over 1200 times and counting.

If you find yourself tweeting from the shower and updating Facebook while doing 85 on the freeway, we created this graphic to save your life. Click below or go here to view the full-size version.

Are you a MAC or a PC?  Are people who use either platform really all that different from one another? We collaborated with Hunch to create this infographic that is chock full of data from a survey of 388,315 of the site’s users about MAC users versus PC users.  Hunch was co-founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and SiteAdvisor founder/angel investor Chris Dixon in June 2009.

It is amazing how many people die each year from tobacco-related illnesses and disease.  Though the numbers are staggering, millions of Americans continue to huff and puff in the face of inevitability.   In this infographic, we collaborated with Good to explore exactly what causes the difference between one puff and a habitual post-dessert drag.

Snapshots of the above infographic: