The interviewers assessment of the views of the scientists they interviewed could provide an interesting comparison with the published papers claiming an overwhelming support of IPCC conclusions based on their interpretations of the published literature. Gerald Stanhill
This question is inaccurate - with which IPCC conclusions? But if you allow an inaccurate answer to an inaccurate question: almost all agree, an overwhelming majority.
But ... in our surveys (Bray and von Storch), we asked many scientists what they think about a number of specific conclusions of the IPCC, including the overall detection and attribution question - we get less than the famous 97% agreement, but of the order of 90% in the latest survey, who agree (in different grades) to the claim of detection and attribution - see Technical Report The Bray and von Storch 5th International Survey of Climate ...
Dear Prof Storch, I received those questionaries sometimes back. I found those questions were prepared with enough attention and thoughts. As it was a time-consuming task, I felt there could be many scientists who did not complete that task and stopped at the midway. Hope you also kept a record of unanswered questions and prepared statistics accordingly. Another point, I would like to add that you only put IPCC involvement and no IPCC involvement. I am sure if you put IPCC author in a separate category to that from IPCC reviewer you can have an interesting statistics.
It was a great effort indeed and thanks for uploading the final version of Technical Report here.
In future, if you carry similar surveys (if possible, a short one) with lesser complexity covering simple points that could be more popular. Many scientists will be then willing to take part and it will give a good statistics. Adding those up you can prepare a comprehensive report later. Few points:
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