here is verbatim the first patagraph of the referenced report t is often said that there is a scientific consensus to the effect that climate change will be catastrophic and that on this question the debate is over the present paper will demonstrate that the claim of unanimous scientific consensus was false and known to be false when it was first made that the trend of opinion in the peer reviewed journals and even in the un s reports on climate is moving rapidly away from alarmism that among climate scientists the debate on the causes and extent of climate change is by no means over and that the evidence in the peer reviewed literature conclusively demonstrates that to the extent that there is a consensus that consensus does not endorse the notion of catastrophic climate change