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A conspiracy of one?

By Stephanie Pappas

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.

Conspiracy believers apt to deny warming 

The researcher is accused of malfeasance, not conspiracy. You can’t conspire with yourself. By any polling standards, this poll was a farce, and by any journalism standards Stephanie is a hack.

Instead of cutting it in half, he tripled it.

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h/t to ralphcramdo

I spammed several comments from team climate moron who claimed that I “have gone silent about Arctic ice.”

I have made at least six posts during the last week with PIOMAS, area and extent graphs showing the “record minimum.”

It is not really my fault if some alarmists are stupid and illiterate.

Does Obama control the weather, or not? Nancy Pelosi says that he doesn’t control the weather.

The Democratic leader said the weather is “a higher power” that the president can’t control.

“It’s rain, what can we do?” Pelosi said at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. “There are some decisions that are made from a different place and whether it rains or not is not in the president’s control.”

Pelosi: Obama can’t control the weather 

However, on the same day Obama told us that he does control the weather. The Democrats need to decide if their Messiah does, or does not control the climate.

More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke.  They’re a threat to our children’s future.  And in this election, you can do something about it.

President Obama’s Speech: Full Text From the Democratic National Convention – NationalJournal.com

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Dems took the mention of God out of their platform, without bothering to think how that might hurt Obama’s feelings.

Chris Mathew’s leg was tingling, but one magazine got it right.

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Too bad they didn’t know how to stop climate change during the Little Ice Age. Just think of all the pleasant weather they could have saved us from.

I am particularly sad that no one knew how to stop climate change during the 1930s. CO2 was very safe during the Dust Bowl.

“And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless – restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do – to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut – anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.”

– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

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The number of Americans whom the U.S. Department of Labor counted as “not in the civilian labor force” in August hit a record high of 88,921,000.

The Labor Department counts a person as not in the civilian labor force if they are at least 16 years old, are not in the military or an institution such as a prison, mental hospital or nursing home, and have not actively looked for a job in the last four weeks. The department counts a person as in “the civilian labor force” if they are at least 16, are not in the military or an institution such as a prison, mental hospital or nursing home, and either do have a job or have actively looked for one in the last four weeks.

In July, there were 155,013,000 in the U.S. civilian labor force. In August that dropped to 154,645,000—meaning that on net 368,000 people simply dropped out of the labor force last month and did not even look for a job.

Record 88,921,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’—119,000 Fewer Employed in August Than July | cnsnews.com