The Consensus of Climate Change Experts

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Vickers has set up his system by signing up coordinators at 31 institutions across 12 countries. Each will be presented with statements and asked simply whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree, or are neutral. The results will be anonymous, but tagged to show institution and scientific area. Vickers hopes to use the pilot results to win a much larger grant to establish a full-time research unit.

Shocked by the impact of online misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, several researchers are launching efforts to survey scientists’ thinking on issues from vaccine safety to climate change. They hope that their projects will make scientific debate, and degrees of consensus, more visible and transparent, benefiting public conversation and policymaking. However, others suggest that these attempts might merely further politicize public debate.

This is an audio version of our Feature: Can giant surveys of scientists fight misinformation on COVID, climate change and more?

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