Unsurprisingly sanity is returning and the number of meteorologists who believe that weather patterns are mainly or entirely caused by human activity is decreasing.
Unsurprising because one would have to be ostrich like , a rabid unthinking fanatic or a financial beneficiary to still believe as the IPCC models have failed and rapidly rising co2 levels have only had positive effects and produced very little if any global warming apart form two El Nino years.
There is little doubt that the tide of wealth for fraudist warmists is starting to recede.
Survey as reported by Joannenova 29/4
In 2016 67% of meteorologists said that humans have caused most or all climate change and
The Guardian headlined that there was a
Growing Consensus among Meteorologists. In 2017 that fell to only 49%.
The Guardian said nothing.
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In 2017
29% of meteorologists who thought climate was largely or entirely man-made, but that fell to only 15% this year.
Figure how this result fits with the idea of the overwhelming evidence and 97% consensus. Which group on the planet after climate scientists should be the second profession to “get it” — how about meteorologists?
So either:
1. meteorologists are really stupid, or
2. meteorologists know how hard it is to predict the climate.
From the survey results
Nearly half of weathercasters (49%) are convinced that the climate change over the past 50 years has been mostly or entirely due to human activity, and an additional two in ten (21%) think it is more or less equally caused by human activity and natural events. About two in ten (21%) think the change has been primarily or entirely due to natural events.
Weathercasters have diverse views on the extent to which additional climate change can be averted over the next 50 years if mitigation measures are taken worldwide: only 17% think a large amount or all additional climate change can be averted; many more think a moderate (38%) or a small (31%) amount of additional climate change can be averted; and 13% think almost no additional climate change can be averted. Only 1% believe there will be no additional climate change over the next 50 years.
Nearly all weathercasters (95%) think climate change—as defined by the American Meteorological Society—is happening; relatively few think it isn’t happening (2%) or don’t know (3%).
When asked if they had witnessed any positive outcomes in their communities as a result of climate change mitigation or adaptation activities, about a third (31%) of weathercasters reported that they had witnessed such outcomes.
Anthony Watts pointed out in 2016 that there were biases that would underestimate the skeptic vote:
Given that the operator of the survey,
George Mason University is a hotbed of calls for prosecution and jailing of “deniers”, and that Edward Maibach is one of the people who
signed the letter to the Whitehouse and who operated this particular AMS survey, I can’t say that I blame them. I wouldn’t have sent it in either when the man asking the questions might flag you for criminal prosecution for having an opinion he doesn’t like.
George Mason University
Center for Climate Change Communication
Weathercaster Survey Report PDF
