As a person who worked in a newsroom at one point (Albeit as an intern.) the basic Reporting 101 question I would have is...
How many climatologists are in the world?
11,000 seems to be an impossibly high number for the category. Any given TV market has maybe 5 full time meteorologists, bigger markets maybe double that. Throw in military, NOA, AccuWeather, Weather Channel etc. You’re probably at a whopping 1,500 full time weather professionals in the US.
So, where are all of the climatologists positions anyways? Where are they predominantly employed? There’s very little call for them professionally outside say, agriculture and forestry.
This 11,000 figure is highly dubious as a starting sample size, let alone as a 100% consensus.
It says “scientists”, not meteorologists.
One reader (a degreed archeologist) broke down the “climate scientists” - but could only get through about 3800 of them before becoming nauseated by the hypocrisy and the hundreds of false names.
His count from the source:
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz088/5610806
The supplemental lists all signatories. I got through 3795 before giving up in disgust.
Of that count of scientists we have ………………….
1437 Researchers (unspecified research field)
972 Students,
294 Lecturers (various affiliations),
273 Directors, former directors and policy makers of conservation, lobby groups and vaguely climate associated institutions.
379 Biologists (Marine/Conservation/ Research/Wildlife/Associate/Evolutionary/several with ambiguous titles)
304 Ecologists (Marine/Research/Forest/Plant/Pollination/Landscape/ several ambiguous titles)
22 Analysts (2 Environmental/ 1 Ecosystem/ 19 unspecified discipline)
which is dandy, except of that 11000 odd, there are ….only 5 Climatologists, 35 Geologists, 3 Archaeologists, 7 Meteorologists, 64 Atmospheric (Chemists, Scientists, Physicists).