4th "CLISCI" survey by Dennis Bray - response frequencies published

Fourth "CLISCI" survey among climate scientists by Dennis Bray (with minor help by Hans von Storch) made public at Academia.edu

Bray, D., and H. von  Storch, 2013: A survey of the perceptions of climate scientists 2013

References to results in earlier results:

3rd survey:
Bray, D., and H. von Storch, 2010: CliSci2008: A Survey of the Perspectives of Climate Scientists Concerning Climate Science and Climate Change, GKSS Report 2010/9, 121 pp.

2nd survey : 

Bray, D. and H. von Storch, 2007: Climate Scientists’ Perceptions of Climate Change Science. GKSS-Report 11/2007

1st survey:

Bray, D. and H. von Storch, 1999: Climate Science. An empirical example of postnormal science. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 80: 439-456

Climate Scientists In The Scheme Of Science

This brief commentary has its origins in the work of Steve Fuller in a short book called ‘Science’ (Open University Press, Buckingham, 1997.) Fuller asks ‘What is the image of social order appropriate to democracy and how is this image best realized...’ (p 4-5). He defines two types of democracy. Here I look at the type of democracy and ‘type’ of science as favored by the sample of climate scientists in the ClilSci2008 Survey of Climate Scientists.

The survey, conducted by Dennis Bray (and with some help by me), among climate scientists has now be done 3 times - the statistics of the latest survey from 2008 are now online. Dennis Bray will in future contribute regularly to this blog and highlite results from this and the earlier surveys.