A study entitled "A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change", in which the University of Vienna was also involved, highlighted that scientific consensus among climate scientists helps us to better perceive human-caused climate change. The study involved over 10,000 people from 27 countries across 6 continents. Misconceptions are reduced and scientifically grounded beliefs regarding the existence and cause of climate change are strengthened.

Between 97% and 99.9% of climate scientists agree that human activities are predominantly responsible for climate change. The study makes clear that communicating this consensus to society has positive effects. Respondents from different countries reacted similarly to the scientific statements after being confronted with the scientific consensus. 88% of climate scientists also agree that climate change constitutes a crisis.

The study was conducted by an international research team and published in the renowned journal Nature Human Behaviour. It also involved students and early-career researchers from various programmes. 

The study was led by Sandra Geiger from the University of Vienna and Bojana Većkalov from the University of Amsterdam. Another distinctive feature of this study is the involvement of students and early-career researchers from the Junior Researcher Programme (JRP) and the Global Behavioral Science (GLOBES) programme at Columbia University.