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This page contains data to support my argument that the name of Scientific opinion on climate change should be changed to Scientific consensus on climate change.

Google Trends[edit]

What is the search trend for the English-speaking world?

Search volume for "scientific consensus on climate change" has fluctuated over time.

Search volume for "scientific opinion on climate change" barely registers.

Google Trends graph for "scientific consensus on climate change"

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Google Books Ngram Viewer[edit]

Which term have scientists, scholars, and other authors used?

Google Books Ngram Viewer results reveal a steep spike in interest for "scientific consensus on climate change" beginning in 1987.

Note the statement within the yellow box: "Ngrams not found: scientific opinion on climate change".



Ngram graph showing frequency the phrase, "scientific consensus on climate change", has appeared in books since 1975.

View the above graph on the Ngrams website.

Google Scholar[edit]

Which phrase have scientists and other authors used over the past 30+ years in peer-reviewed scholarly articles?

(Note: Time frame is "Any time". Citations and patents were deselected for all searches.)

"scientific opinion" "climate change" = About 6,100 results

"scientific consensus" "climate change" = About 27,500 results

"scientific opinion on climate change" = About 191 results

"scientific consensus on climate change" = About 4,100 results

Text analysis of the article[edit]

What is the article about?

I converted the article to a text file (UTC-8) and then pasted the text into a text analyzer at Online-Utility.org

Article statistics[edit]

Number of characters (including spaces) : 107034 | Number of characters (without spaces) : 86679 | Number of words : 16126 | Lexical Density : 16.8610 | Number of sentences : 1085 | Number of syllables : 29280 .

Rank order, word frequency, and percent of all words[edit]

Rank Word Frequency Percent
28. consensus 59 0.3659
123. opinion 20 0.1240
680. opinions 4 0.0248

Phrase frequency[edit]

Phrase Frequency
scientific opinion 11
scientific consensus 26

Google Search Volume[edit]

What do people in the United States search for?

Based on SEMrush United States search data.

Search volume for the two keyword phrases
Keyword phrase Volume
scientific consensus on climate change 1000
scientific opinion on climate change 10

Pageviews data[edit]

I am including these statistics for background info. I don't think Pageviews data is directly relevant to the name change question, although it gives one a sense of the article's use (interest; popularity) over the last few years.

Article: Scientific opinion on climate change

Pageviews: 882,119

Monthly average: 19,177

Edits: 602

Editors: 215

Watchers: 408

Size: 145,353

Pageviews graph[edit]

Pageviews graph for July 2015 to April 2019