User:Markworthen/Opinion-Consensus

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
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.



View this Google Trends graph on the Trends website

Google Books Ngram Viewer
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".



View the above graph on the Ngrams website.

Google Scholar
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
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
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.

Google Search Volume
'''What do people in the United States search for? '''

Based on SEMrush United States search data.

Pageviews data
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
Pageviews graph for July 2015 to April 2019