The 97% claim is a myth. It is the result of an extremist alarmist group divining the beliefs of the authors of a number of papers on climate change by reading those papers rather than by actually asking the authors. Any rational individual can see the problem with that.
When the actual authors were interviewed later the real result was something like 52%. Keep in mind that these are people that make their living doing climate research on your dime, not representative of the larger scientific community. What would you expect them to say?
The “97 percent” figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey—does not a consensus make.
97% of Big Foot researchers believe that Big Foot is real.