The Bray and von Storch 5th International Survey of Climate Scientists 2015/2016 is now available online at :


https://www.academia.edu/26328070/The_Bray_and_von_Storch_5_th_International_Survey_of_Climate_Scientists_2015_2016

An alternative access is via http://www.hzg.de/imperia/md/content/hzg/zentrale_einrichtungen/bibliothek/berichte/hzg_reports_2016/hzg_report_2016_2.pdf

The report presents the findings of a survey of climate scientists’ perceptions of the global warming issue. The survey was conducted in 2015/16. The survey includes the following sections: demographics of participants, participants’ assessment of climate science, the utility of models, extreme events, attribution of extreme events, climate and society, science and society.

Climate science - FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE?

As already announced, the 5^th Bray-and-von Storch survey has been completed and the response frequencies become available. For further details of the set of five surveys refer to the first entry here on the Klimazwiebel. The sampling and the demographics will be made public with the full report, which is to be expected in a few months.

Here, and in following threads, we will present a few results of the 5^th Bray-and-von Storch survey, which may be of interest for some; we certainly would like to hear the comments by the readers.

Today we discuss the responses of two questions from the block “Science and Society”, which are essentially asking if science should be “FOR the people” or “BY the people”.

Fifth Bray – von Storch International Survey of Climate Scientists completed

In the past, beginning in 1995, Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch, conducted a series of interviews with an international sample of climate scientists concerning their opinions of climate change, climate models and the social and political dimension of climate change. These interviews provided the basis for a set of questions to be used as a survey instrument of the broader climate science community.