Survey shows that climate-change deniers tend to believe in conspiracy theories. Climate-change deni - Polidicks

[quote]A study suggesting climate change deniers also tend to hold general beliefs in conspiracy theories has sparked accusations of a conspiracy on climate change-denial blogs. The research, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science, surveyed more than 1,000 readers of science blogs regarding their beliefs regarding global warming. The results revealed that people who tend to believe in a wide array of conspiracy theories are more likely to reject the scientific consensus that the Earth is heating up. University of Western Australia psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky based the findings on responses from an online survey posted on eight science blogs. According to the paper, Lewandowsky approached five climate-skeptic blogs and asked them to post the survey link, but none did. Now, climate-skeptic bloggers are striking back with a new conspiracy theory: that the researchers deliberately failed to contact "real skeptics" for the study and then lied about it. "(F)or some reason, Dr. Lewandowsky refuses to divulge which skeptical blogs he contacted," wrote Anthony Watts, who blogs on the popular climate skepticism website Watts Up With That? Climate change conspiracy Though about 97 percent of working scientists agree that the evidence shows a warming trend caused by humans, public understanding of climate change falls along political lines. Democrats are more likely to "believe in" global warming than Republicans, according to a 2011 report by the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute. In fact, deniers and skeptics who felt more confident in their climate-change knowledge were the strongest disbelievers. [ 10 Climate Change Myths Busted ] Believing that climate change isn't happening or that it's not human-caused requires a belief that thousands of climate scientists around the world are lying outright, Lewandowsky and his colleagues wrote in their new paper. Conspiracy theory beliefs are known to come in clusters — someone who thinks NASA faked the moon landing is more likely to accept the theory that 9/11 was an inside job, for example. So Lewandowsky and his colleagues created an online survey and asked eight mostly pro-science blogs and five climate-skeptic blogs to post a link to the survey for their readers. The respondents were self-selecting, but highly motivated to care about climate science, the researchers noted. The responses came only from the eight pro-science blogs, the researchers reported. Of 1,145 usable survey responses, the researchers found that support for free-market, laissez-faire economics was linked to a rejection of climate change. A tendency to believe other conspiracy theories was also linked to denial of climate change. Finally, climate-change deniers were more likely than others to say that other environmental problems have been solved, indicating a dismissive attitude toward "green" causes. [ Top 10 Conspiracy Theories ] Climate psych controversy Unsurprisingly, the results did not please climate-skeptic bloggers, some of whom responded by accusing Lewandowsky of not attempting to contact them at all. In an email to Lucia Liljegren, who blogs at The Blackboard, Lewandowsky declined to name the bloggers he emailed, citing privacy concerns. In response, Liljegren wrote, "I think who Lewandowsky contacted will reveal whether he really even tried to conduct a balanced survey," urging other bloggers to publicly give permission for Lewandowsky to reveal their names. The researcher told DeSmogBlog that he has contacted his university's ethics committee to find out if he is allowed to do so. In the meantime, Simon James, who blogs at Australian Climate Madness, has submitted a Freedom of Information request to the University of Western Australia in an effort to force the release of emails related to the study, and prominent climate-change skeptic Steve McIntyre has urged readers to email the university with academic misconduct complaints. McIntyre later reported that an email search turned up a request from one of Lewandowsky's collaborators. "(T)o our knowledge, our results are the first to provide empirical evidence for the correlation between a general construct of conspiracist ideation and the general tendency to reject well-founded science," Lewandowsky and his colleagues concluded. Psychological research has found that conspiracy beliefs are hard to dislodge, they wrote, but efforts to debunk multiple lines of conspiratorial reasoning at once may help.[/quote] [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48947384/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UEz549ZlRRo]SOURCE[/url]

good going

I wonder if they really don't see just how retarded they make themselves look.

In other news, 9/11 was an inside job.

Nutters being nuts? They're putting a king size Snickers bar to shame.

Reposting these due to relevancy and bolding my favorite. [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9503044/Climate-change-deniers-are-either-extreme-free-marketeers-or-conspiracy-theorists.html"]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9503044/Climate-change-deniers-are-either-extreme-free-marketeers-or-conspiracy-theorists.html[/URL] [quote]It is an act of selfish, weak, cowardly stupidity to lie to divert funds from real environmental and humanitarian needs. It is shameful and inhumane.[/quote] [quote]So, people who THINK, and can REASON, and don't believe every piece of crap story fed to them, and do their own research, and READ, and STUDY, and come up with their OWN CONCLUSIONS, is basically crazy. Right. Guess we know Mr. Pearlman's been compromised. If he even wrote this at all and didn't have this handed to him along with a stuffed envelope.[/quote] [quote]As far as the Landing on the Moon, I tend to think they did, but the photography, is in my mind was false, and was done in a studio, the surface of the moon they say is covered with fine dust, and when the module lifted off by rocket propulsion it would have been in a dust cloud. [/quote] [quote]Some of the commenters below might be advised to read the article again, have a good look in a mirror and then count to ten before commenting any further. Being a conspiracy theorist and denying climate change doesn't mean you're wrong.[/quote] [quote]I think there was a moon landing, and also a studio 'landing' in case the real one failed. However there seems to have been good reasons to use some of the the studio shots, which do show shadows created from several light sourses. Does that make me a conspiracy theorist, Dr Who? ... If you open [url]www.enterprisemission.com[/url], the site of B. Hoagland, ex-science advisor to nasa, [B]you will see the unpublicised moon photos, some showing a much degraded, maybe billions of years old, massive 40km high glass-like dome structure, with a cityscape, aka LA, below it.[/B][/quote] [quote]I'm HAPPY to be lumped in with those who don't buy the Apollo or Diana frauds; we know the Truth is on our side. ... Besides, your masters have this new "sustainable development" fraud against humanity they've turned to, don't they? And they want you to put all your efforts into selling THAT commie garbage, right? So chop-chop, collaborators, and get busy shining masters' shiny holes. Because that's all you're good for.[/quote]

It should be noted survey (in the title) and study are very different things. Could you change it, OP?

[QUOTE=SL128;37607008]Reposting these due to relevancy and bolding my favorite. [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9503044/Climate-change-deniers-are-either-extreme-free-marketeers-or-conspiracy-theorists.html"]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/9503044/Climate-change-deniers-are-either-extreme-free-marketeers-or-conspiracy-theorists.html[/URL][/QUOTE] There is so much wrong with these comments that I don't even know where to begin.

Morons. Anybody with half of a goddamn brains knows that lizard people with laser guns are melting the ice-caps.

[QUOTE=axelord157;37607188]Morons. Anybody with half of a goddamn brains knows that lizard people with laser guns are melting the ice-caps.[/QUOTE] I thought they were melting because the predators were digging tunnels to get to their alien hunting grounds.

[QUOTE=Forumaster;37607935]I thought they were melting because the predators were digging tunnels to get to their alien hunting grounds.[/QUOTE] You're both wrong! If you just opened your eyes you'd notice that every picture of melting icecaps was done in a studio! [IMG]http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/polar-ice-caps-melting.jpg[/IMG] Earth doesn't have red lines like that!

[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;37607999]You're both wrong! If you just opened your eyes you'd notice that every picture of melting icecaps was done in a studio! [IMG]http://ecoble.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/polar-ice-caps-melting.jpg[/IMG] Earth doesn't have red lines like that![/QUOTE] oh my god... if that image is true... holy shit.. That is quite a lot for just 30 years.

I do believe in climate change, it's clearly a real thing however, I don't believe it's all or even a majority of it being caused by humans. It's arrogant to think that over only ~100 years of us having the ability to pump out greenhouse gasses is somehow going to fuck the entire planet over completely. That's arrogant, illogical and the very definition of a money grabbing scare tactic. Yes humans have an impact, like the hole in the ozone layer, but that's fixed. It's really arrogant to say that our release of CO2 is somehow a larger impact on the planet than the thousands of larger ones before. Not only this but people who often preach global warming try to tell us that the melting icecaps will raise sea levels... Anyone who's taken basic science will know that water EXPANDS as it freezes. So theoretically, the oceans should be dropping, not rising. But often both sides of the argument don't even know the definition of logic so I guess none of my points are very valid.