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Author Behind Study Linking Conspiracy Theorists, Free-Market Thinkers to Global Warming Denial Releases Names of ‘Skeptic’ Blogs

Sep. 11, 2012 10:26am Liz Klimas

On Monday, TheBlaze reported on a study from a University of Western Australia professor who found through a survey that those who were skeptical of man-made global warming were more likely to be believers of free-market economics and/or conspiracy theories. These deniers of man-made global warming had for the last few weeks been criticizing the study, seeking more information. Some of information has now been released.

Climate Skeptic Study Author Stephan Lewandowsky Responds to Deniers Criticism

Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky (Image: University of Western Australia)

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky wrote in his study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, that he contacted eight “pro-science” blogs (those supporting man-made global warming) and five “skeptic” blogs to post a link to his voluntary survey in 2010. In his paper he made a case for how some blogs were playing an “influential role in questioning climate science.”

After publishing this study, some blogs that would be considered skeptical of man-made global warming began to question Lewandowsky’s methodology, including which blogs he actually contacted — none of those considered skeptics ended up posting the survey. Some of these blogs calling out Lewandowsky, like Anthony Watts’ “Watts Up With That” were alluding to the researcher either not contacting mainstream skeptic blogs or not giving them enough time to post the survey.

Later on Monday, the names of these skeptic blogs were released and Lewandowsky issued a blog post responding to some of the recent criticism.

Here’s a breakdown of the skeptic blogs that were invited to post Lewandowsky’s survey in 2010 and their response status to this invitation:

Climate Audit (maintained by Steve McIntyre who said he received an invite to post the survey)
RogerPielkeJr.blogspot.com (maintained by Dr. Roger Pielke Jr who Lewandowsky said replied to the initial contact)
ClimateDepot (maintained by Marc Morano who Lewandowsky said replied to the initial contact)
Dr.RoySpenser.com (maintained by Dr. Roy Spencer who Lewandwosky said did not reply to his invitation)
Science and Public Policy Institute blog (maintained by Robert Ferguson who Lewandowsky said did not reply to his invitation)

Lewandowsky says in his post that all four of these blogs have said they were not contacted previously. Some bloggers alleged that he had not contacted any climate skeptic blogs, which Lewandowsky writes “in light of such massive, and massively false, allegations numerous apologies ought to be forthcoming.”

Lewandowsky goes on to say he is unsure why these last four bloggers were unable to find his survey correspondence, but offers these hypotheses:

It’s called “human error.” It simply means the 4 bloggers couldn’t find the email, didn’t know what to search for, or their inboxes were corrupted by a move into another building, to name but a few possibilities.

Some commenters in Lewandowsky’s blog post have said perhaps the initial invitation could not be located easily as it was sent from his research assistant, Charles Hanich.

TheBlaze, in an email to Lewandowsky, also asked if he would release the “pro-science” blogs who posted his survey and answer a few other questions regarding criticism he was receiving from climate skeptic blogs.

The blogs that did post in 2010 included the following:

Lewandowsky was also accused by climate skeptic blogs of providing different survey’s to different sites. To this, he told TheBlaze “it is standard practice in research to assign different versions of a survey to different people which differ only in the order in which questions are presented.” Doing this, he said, canceled out “carry-over effects from one set of questions to another, which occurs when the various versions are then combined and analyzed together.”

Although he writes he has received support for his research from climate science colleagues and those in cognitive research, he reiterates among the skeptics, the response “confirmed my research findings better than any further data collection could have achieved.”

“Accusations were made without a shred of evidence at hair-trigger speed, and each theory was followed by another one built on the misreading of simple facts—such as the question-order scheme just discussed,” he wrote. “When I explained that I had to ensure that no ethical guidelines were violated by releasing the bloggers’ identity (as I explained here http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/ccc1.html ), this was instantly turned into all sorts of accusations ranging from (a) I had something to hide to (b) didn’t contact those bloggers at all.”

Climate skeptic blogs such as McIntyre’s Climate Audit have been documenting the release of the deniers contacted by Lewandowsky and his team. One of them — Pielke Jr. — McIntyre writes may not be skeptical enough to be considered a denier of man-made global warming. McIntyre writes:

No one thought of [Pielke Jr.] because he believes that increased CO2 causes temperature increases and that it is an important and relevant problem.

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Pielke Jr obviously doesn’t have a particularly high regard for Peter Gleick, Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann, but these are positions that one can reasonably hold without being a “skeptic” who obsessively yelps and who disregards satellite records.

McIntyre also believes his comments on Lewandowky’s blog are censored unfairly. He wrote initially on Monday part of a comment that said ”…it doesn’t seem to me to be a major issue as compared with your use of fake responses.” This comment was snipped by a moderator for being “inflammatory.” Referring himself to the site’s comment policy, McIntyre found “profanity or inflammatory tone” was not allowed. “Again, constructive discussion is difficult when overheated rhetoric or profanity is flying around,” the policy says.

McIntyre did not consider his comment in violation of this policy. He was later moderated for “accusations of dishonesty/impropriety” against the paper.

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Comments (28)

Oneirishman
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:08pm
Liberal Blogs often scrub any decenting veiw. It is common practice as many conservatives will attest. They cannot debate the issues, they make up data and profess to hold the only point of veiw. We have never seen a real debate on the issue of Climate change because Liberals are afraid of facts.

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Larry E
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:12pm
Maybe it’s just me, having been educated in a natural science, but when “scientists” in the “social sciences” get into chastising those in natural science it’s rather like the children chastising the parents. They may have some interesting insights, but generally don’t have the necessary understanding to do what they’ve set out to do.

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CraigKing
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:49pm
It’s quite amusing really, this continual onslaught against us skeptics. It never takes the form of scientific debate as the warmista seem to be afraid of that. No it is always ad hominem attacks whether at individuals or groups.

I am a free market guy who knows we landed on the moon, that smoking can increase your risk of developing lung cancer, that the pig bastard Islamists carried out 911, that the Earth is a sphere and that cAGW is a steaming pile of *********.

Lew’s “survey” is pure bunkum.

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coyote1hell
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
Al -Oh my God it’s Hot- Gore said, I really like this fool….

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RaydocX
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:06pm
hrmm…

ok, sign me up! I believe in the free market… it’s been PROVEN repeatedly, just as communism has been proven to fail repeatedly.

and i’m a ‘climate skeptic’ if you want to insist that man is responsible for global warming… I will agree the potential exists, but the data to date has been so overwhelmingly massaged or sifted it is worthless, and a warmer climate is actually better for a growing population… hard to farm in colder climates. the dire threats… oh, sorry, warnings, being made by ‘learned academicians’ and AlGore haven’t come true, but i guess we’re supposed to ignore that (unless you’re a Republican candidate, right Dawkins?)

and Conspiracy Theories? Well, when all of academia wants to push a demonstrably false tale, that seems a reasonable definition of conspiracy. when the administration lies left right and center about everything, and the MSM laps it up that seems culpable if not a cabal. And when the MSM refuses to vet ANYTHING about the now sitting President before he is elected, even when he provided them conlficting and easily disproven ‘facts’ through his books, as well as by his actions… well, if not a conspiracy, it’s a ‘gentlemen’s agreement to look the other way.’ which is a ****’s breadth from conspiracy, only allowing those involved plausible denial… otherwise how could so many fools and scoundrels sleep at night?

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team1blazer
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:32am
@Marine25 … And yet those scientists who refute MMGW are silenced and ostracised by the “experts” who continue to spout this (at best questionable) science. Is the earth warming? Yes, absolutely. Does man have anything to do with it? Possibly. Can man do anything about it? Absolutely Not. To think otherwise is the epitome of arrogance and delusion.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:26am
Now let’s see- Lewandowski is a Professor of PSYCHOLOGY at Western Australia University and yet all 16 of his writings from March 11, 2010 until this one were about global warming. What did he do, minor in climatology? It is probably accurate to assume that no one will fund his useless psycho research so someone like George Soros or Al Gore is funding this insult to those who have a valid opposing opinion. Either that, or Lewandowski is heavily invested in the Climate Exchange. Very few people who know anything about earth’s processes have said that there is no such thing as climate change. Of course there is a change in climate- it always has changed, it always will change and there isn’t a damned thing Lewandowski, Soros, or Gore can do about it (and they are quite aware of that). What is being contested is the THEORY that climate change is a function of anthropomorhic acitivity. The “scientists” making a lot of money claiming that this link exists would find reason to say that it did NOT exist if that opinion were as well funded. One must have a fiduciary motive to make such dramatic statements based on observations made over and incredibly short period of time and extrapolating those results to predict future conditions. It is like looking at the Grand Canyon and saying “If we don’t dam up this river, it’ll cut straight through the earth”. Now, scientists are saying that metor showers are changing earth’s climate. Hey Gore, is this Bush’s fault too?

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:02am
Global Warming is a man made fraud across the board; let us end this matter and get on with getting us out of the current mess of Obama and out of the UN as well.

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- JRook
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:15am
  Good thing GB never presents or talks about conspiracies LOL.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:25am
  I’m with you on that one snow, lets focus on problems that can be solved instead of creating bogus ones that can’t be solved. Until we find the thermostat switch for the sun Global warming and cooling will continue. Funny thing is while all these AL holes who hid for the last two cool years with record breaking cold winters and blizzards they couldn’t be found. Not this year is warmer and they’er all coming out of the wood work funny thing THEY AREN’T TALKING CO2 LEVELS because they are down this year.
  
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- rp454
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:35am
  Hey rook.. It’s not a conspiracy if the evidence supports it and GB knows it. Keep drinking the Kool-aid and you’ll wake up one morning and wonder how you got that bar code across your forehead.
  
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Byrdi
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:58am
That is pretty much a confirmation that capitalism will disappear with the strange efforts to stop global climate change. Where do China and India fit into this scenario? China has passed us as the biggest polluter on the planet yet we sell them our coal while our coal plants are being closed down and certain mines are being closed while others permitted to operate. Nothing they do makes any sense at all. 4200 years ago we experienced what is referred to as a climate shift which lasted for 200 years. They must have stopped driving those Hummers.

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- SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:08am
  The largest sources of greenhouse gases are non-combusted fires (like those used by those in India and China to cook their food). There are more than 2.5 billion people in those two countries. So, what are we going to do about this serious problem.
  
  Obviously this can’t continue if we are to survive as a species. Man Made Global Warming is the most serious threat facing our planet, just slightly higher than an comet hitting the earth and killing all life, including bacteria.
  
  (Crazy you say?????? I saw this line of thinking on the History Channel. I believe the show was focused on the 5 greatest threats to our planet, and global warming was #1. All other potential threats killed at least 1/2 of the population……some were true planet killers)
  
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LuvsYeshua
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:57am
These people are worshiping a false god. Although they don’t wear a loincloth and name it “the sun god” or some of those other ancient names, they are still living their lives to appease the god of their almighty “environment”.

They sacrifice to it via forgoing productivity, convenience and strong business; they are scared to offer it the wrong kind of burnt offerings (burning plastic, styrofoam, etc.); they have installed their radical religious environmentalism into our government and those around the world (EPA and such), and force everyone to comply with its prophets. Their beliefs are very much worshiping a false god and is very much a religion.

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chips1
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:57am
My inbox is full of spam. Delete! Delete! Delete! He is just spam like Obama.

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mike551
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:54am
Second greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the world. obama being the first. IMPEACH oBAMA NOW. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

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RightThinking1
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:51am
Quoting here : It’s called “human error.” It simply means the 4 bloggers couldn’t find the email, didn’t know what to search for, or their inboxes were corrupted by a move into another building, to name but a few possibilities.
Rofl…., It’s called “projection”. Those “human errors” sound like the excuses that Michael Mann has used for not producing the data he used to produce the Hockey Stick.

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purecolorartist
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:51am
You can take a replication of Lewandowsky’s strangely worded survey here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/08/replication-of-lewandowsky-survey/
THE PASSWORD FOR THE SURVEY IS “REPLICATE” (case sensitive)
Lewandowsky and his cronies seem to be the ones who believe in conspiracy theories.
Read the comments at the bottom for eye opening commentary.

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:48am
Wheels within wheels in a spiral array…the lies needed to justify the lies, demand more lies. How individuals can get through life as liars surprise me. It has to take so much energy to invent a new world out of thin air and then try to maintain that world by inventing more false worlds, all the while standing in stark defiance of the facts of the one and only actual reality. No wonder so many on the Left seem to display clear and distinct signs of mental illness.

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Twinspeedr
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:47am
It is called thinking for yourself, ever hear of it? I think everyone should at least try it. The movie the Matrix used “the red pill” to illustrate the concept. Oh, now you understand…

Today popular culture doesn’t tolerate true free thinking, only parroting the currently fashionable meme that is handed to us by Hollywood and the Media (aka: Ministry of Propaganda).

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tothepoint
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:44am
And these liars are teaching the youth of their countries. Sickening. He should be fired.

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ExLawman
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:44am
The earth does not have a fever. It’s a shame that people waste their lives feeding other people grape drink.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:42am
I find that people who believe in MMGW, believe they are so important that the planet would notice them out of billions. They believe themselves superior in intellect to most of mankind and have an ego as big as that of the sun, of which they don’t seem to consider could be a contributing factor in heating the earth.

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tothepoint
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:42am
Like many of those pushing the “Global Warming” hoax, HE WAS OUTED AS A LIAR!

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tothepoint
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:42am
Just another false study the “Climate Change” aka “Global Warming” supporters use to push their hoax.

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starman70
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:37am
Anything to perpetrate the “Climate Change/Global Warming hoax!

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- SUNTZU
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:41am
  Steve is a septic thinker.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on September 11, 2012 at 10:45am
  Just more proof that anti-science thinking is the logical first cousin of conspiracy theorists and belief in the invisable hand. People who spend their lives researching and getting smarter rejected by those praying and celebrating ignorance. History shows not one example where the latter group was ever right.
  
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