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.

Befragung der Universität Hamburg zum Thema „Medien, Wissenschaft und Klimawandel“

Teilnehmer gesucht für Befragung der Universität Hamburg zum Thema „Medien, Wissenschaft und Klimawandel“ 

Für eine Befragung der Forschergruppe „Public Discourse on Climate Change“ der Universität Hamburg (KlimaCampus) werden Teilnehmer gesucht.

Der Fragebogen umfasst Fragen zum Mediennutzungsverhalten sowie Meinungen zu bestimmten Themen von Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft, insbesondere zum Klimawandel. Zielsetzung des Projektes ist es, mehr darüber zu erfahren, wie die Menschen den Klimawandel in den traditionellen Massenmedien und in Online-Medien wahrnehmen.

Die Befragung dauert etwa 20 Minuten. Hier ist der Link für den Fragebogen: http://mingle.respondi.com/uc/main/5d79/?a=3

Das Projektteam – Professor Irene Neverla, Dr. Monika Taddicken und Ines Schaudel, M.A. – freut sich über jede/n Teilnehmer/in! Nähere Informationen zum Forschungsprojekt finden Sie hier: (http://l.hh.de/WXwBUK).

Skeptogenesis - planned survey

Some times ago, we had a survey among climate skeptics about their opinions and about how they became skeptics. We (Rob Maris and myself) intend to repeat this survey, in principle similar to the old survey, but with improved (more accurate) questions. If somebody wants to help distributing the word about the survey, please let us know (hvonstorch@web.de). Also other comments are welcome.

We may be able to run the survey early next year.

Eurobarometer studies opinins on climate change in 2011

Eurobarometer has surveyed European citizens about their view of climate change and reports about the results in its Special Eurobarometer 372.

The Executive Summary reads:

Another survey - this time in English

The ad-hoc survey, which I had used in German among passengers on a cruise-ship  and persons involved in water management, has been used by a European company involved in risk management.

Rob Maris: Climatic/Politic Survey Analysis

Analysis by Rob Maris

From march 23^rd until april 1^st, a survey has been run where focus was on getting an idea of correlationship between climatic viewpoint and political viewpoint of Klimazwiebel readers.

Rob Maris: survey on political position

A guest activity by Rob Maris
See survey in the right column of this webblog.

2nd reader survey on KLIMAZWIEBEL

We have again used the opportunity to survey our readers; no claims are made that this survey would lead to representative or even consistent results. Instead it is just a snapshot. Anyway, it turns out that really many of our readers are scientists - mostly natural scientist. A few decision makers and journalists are among our readers, but hardly any NGO members. And our readers read other blogs as well, in particular Climate Audit, but also Real Climate.

One month experience with the Klimazwiebel

The weblog was launched on 6 December 2009, and we had until 8 January 29,700 klicks (counting began only a few days after launching), with a total of 53 articles.

Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch: Projections and Predictions

The survey "CLISCI2008" among climate scientists has been used to examine the terminology concerning two key concepts in climate science, namely, predictions and projections, as used among climate scientists.

Question: Do you find this information convincing?

On Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus | Information Is Beautiful a position called "deniers" is compared with another position "consensus" ...

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.