International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development

Global warming is the ‘talk of the town’ in this century, with its detrimental effects already being brought to limelight by the recurring events of massive floods, annihilating droughts and ravaging cyclones throughout the globe. The average global temperatures are higher than they have ever been during the past millennium, and the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have crossed all previous records. We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 115 climate abstracts from 1991–2014 matching the topics ‘global climate change’ or ‘global warming’. From 1991 to 2014 CO_2, CH₄ and NO_X has increased 27%, 145% and 13% respectively.