Corrigendum: Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix133.].

Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy.

Increasing surface temperatures, Arctic sea-ice loss, and other evidence of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are acknowledged by every major scientific organization in the world. However, there is a wide gap between this broad scientific consensus and public opinion. Internet blogs have strongly contributed to this consensus gap by fomenting misunderstandings of AGW causes and consequences.

Scientists' views about attribution of global warming.

Results are presented from a survey held among 1868 scientists studying various aspects of climate change, including physical climate, climate impacts, and mitigation. The survey was unique in its size, broadness and level of detail. Consistent with other research, we found that, as the level of expertise in climate science grew, so too did the level of agreement on anthropogenic causation.

Evidence for the role of organics in aerosol particle formation under atmospheric conditions.

New particle formation in the atmosphere is an important parameter in governing the radiative forcing of atmospheric aerosols. However, detailed nucleation mechanisms remain ambiguous, as laboratory data have so far not been successful in explaining atmospheric nucleation. We investigated the formation of new particles in a smog chamber simulating the photochemical formation of H(2)SO(4) and organic condensable species.

Alpha-pinene oxidation in the presence of seed aerosol: estimates of nucleation rates, growth rates, and yield.

A recently developed inverse-modeling procedure has been applied to a case study of particle nucleation and growth following alpha-pinene and SO2 oxidation in a smog chamber. With the use of only the measured aerosol size distributions as input, the condensational growth rate is obtained by regression analysis of the general dynamic equation, taking into account coagulation and wall losses. The growth rate provides an indirect measure of the concentration of the condensing species, offset by their vapor pressures.