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Originally denoted "climate change ''skeptics''" or "anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming ''skeptics''", the term referred to those who are as yet unconvinced by evidence that emissions of man-made CO2 significantly enhance the natural atmospheric greenhouse effect. But the accumulation of evidenceled to a near-total scientific consensus,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=skepticalscience.com |title=Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming |url=http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm |accessdate=2011-04-04 |author=John Cook |date=2010-06-26 }}</ref> led to a near-total scientific consensus.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=skepticalscience.com |title=How many climate scientists are climate skeptics? |url=http://www.skepticalscience.com/How-many-climate-scientists-are-climate-skeptics.html |accessdate=2011-04-04 |author=John Cook |date=2010-06-22 }}</ref> In this label, making the term word "skeptic" is a misnomer and considered to be "a black eye on true skeptics".<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Skepticblog |title=What, If Anything, Can Skeptics Say About Science? |url=http://skepticblog.org/2009/12/22/what-if-anything-can-skeptics-say-about-science/ |accessdate=2011-04-04 |author=Daniel Loxton |date=2009-12-22 }}</ref>