Climate of Doubt

PBS Frontline: Climate of Doubt

featuring Coral Davenport (with a named like Coral..)

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and the unbiased response

Frontline repeatedly implied that there is an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that our CO₂ emissions are driving us to a global climate catastrophe. They cited 97% as the fraction of the climate science community who agreed with climate alarmism.

That number is easily dismissed. It comes from a 2009 online survey of 10,257 earth scientists, conducted by two researchers at the University of Illinois. Strangely, the researchers chose to eliminate almost all the scientists from the survey and so ended up with only 77 people, 75 of whom, or 97%, thought humans contributed to climate change.

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which mirrors Larry Bell

[so what is it?  like 90% instead?]

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here's what skepticalscience wrote.

We should also consider official scientific bodies and what they think about climate change. There are no national or major scientific institutions anywhere in the world that dispute the theory of anthropogenic climate change. Not one.

In the field of climate science, the consensus is unequivocal: human activities are causing climate change.

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Now, from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, comes a fresh study on the question of scientific consensus. Its findings offer something new: scientists appear actually to underestimate the extent to which they, as a group, agree on key questions related to climate change science.

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Wikipedia article on the scientific opinion on climate change