This is the climate change questionnaire questions in the survey I answered in early June 2012 and commented upon here.
UPDATE
It has been brought to my attention that this is NOT the questionnaire used in Lewandowsky et al 2012. There are similarities but this appears to be a development of the 2010 survey, and was probably being trailed at Watching the Deniers site. It was located on the University of Western Australia site – try the link. THE ACTUAL (& shorter) QUESTIONNAIRE is analyzed here.
I believe that this survey is the basis of the recent paper:-
Lewandowsky, Oberauer & Gignac – NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science (in press, Psychological Science)
Note to Professor Lewandowsky of University of Western Australia
If this is not the original survey, but has been doctored in any way, I will happily publish the actual survey. I will also provide details of the researcher and the url for any investigation. I can be contacted through the moderated comments. I am not aware of any copyright restrictions on reposting the questions. I accessed this from “Watching the Deniers” website, where there was no mention of copyright material. Neither was there any mention of copyright on the introductory front page. The doing a search I only came across a link to a 2010 survey. Neither could I find a link within The University of Western Australia Website, though it is on their servers.
Please indicate how much you agree with the following statements:
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| I believe that the climate is always changing and what we are currently observing is just natural fluctuation. |
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| I believe that most of the warming over the last 50 years is due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. |
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| I believe that the burning of fossil fuels over the last 50 years has caused serious damage to the planet’s climate. |
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| Human CO2 emissions cause climate change. |
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| Humans are too insignificant to have an appreciable impact on global temperature. |
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| I believe that genetic modification is an important and viable contribution to help feed the world’s rapidly growing population. |
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| I believe genetically engineered foods have already damaged the environment. |
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| I believe that because there are so many unknowns, that it is dangerous to manipulate the natural genetic material of foods. |
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| Genetic modification of foods is a safe and reliable technology. |
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| I believe that vaccines are a safe and reliable way to help avert the spread of preventable diseases. |
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| I believe that vaccines have negative side effects that outweigh the benefits of vaccination for children. |
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| Vaccines are thoroughly tested in the laboratory and wouldn’t be made available to the public unless it was known that they are safe. |
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| The risk of vaccinations to maim and kill children outweighs their health benefits |
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| Vaccinations are one of the most significant contributions to public health. |
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| I am politically more liberal than conservative. |
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| In any election, given a choice between a Republican and a Democratic candidate, I will select the Republican over the Democrat. |
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| Communism has been proven to be a failed political ideology. |
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| I cannot see myself ever voting to elect conservative candidates. |
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| The major national media are too left-wing for my taste. |
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| Socialism has many advantages over capitalism. |
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| On balance, I lean politically more to the left than to the right. |
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| An economic system based on free markets unrestrained by government interference automatically works best to meet human needs. |
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| The free market system may be efficient for resource allocation but it is limited in its capacity to promote social justice. |
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| The preservation of the free market system is more important than localized environmental concerns. |
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| Free and unregulated markets pose important threats to sustainable development. |
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| The free market system is likely to promote unsustainable consumption. |
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| A powerful and secretive group known as the New World Order is planning to eventually rule the world through an autonomous world government which would replace sovereign governments. |
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| The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was the result of an organized conspiracy by U.S. government agencies such as the CIA and FBI. |
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| The Apollo moon landings never happened and were staged in a Hollywood film studio. |
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| The assassination of John F. Kennedy was not committed by the lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald but was rather a detailed organized conspiracy to kill the President. |
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| The U.S. government allowed the 9-11 attacks to take place so that it would have an excuse to achieve foreign (e.g., wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) and domestic (e.g., attacks on civil liberties) goals that had been determined prior to the attacks. |
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| Princess Diana’s death was not an accident but rather an organised assassination by members of the British royal family who disliked her. |
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| The claim that the climate is changing due to emissions from fossil fuels is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists who wish to spend more taxpayer money on climate research. |
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| U.S. agencies intentionally created the AIDS epidemic and administered it to Black and gay men in the 1970s. |
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| The alleged link between second-hand tobacco smoke and ill health is based on bogus science and is an attempt by a corrupt cartel of medical researchers to replace rational science with dogma. |
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| The HIV virus causes AIDS. |
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| Smoking causes lung cancer. |
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| Lead in drinking water poses a serious long-term health risk. |
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| The HIV virus causes AIDS. |
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| Smoking causes lung cancer. |
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| Lead in drinking water poses a serious long-term health risk. |
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| God is important in my life |
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| I believe there is a life after death |
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| I get comfort or strength from religion |
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| There is no proof of God: if there is a God, he would have shown himself by now |
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| I think of myself as a religious person |
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| I have made a personal commitment to live my life for God |
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| I have had an experience of spiritual worship that was very moving and powerful |
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| I have experienced a definite answer to prayer or specific guidance from God |
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| Modern humans are the product of evolutionary processes that have occurred over millions of years |
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| The theory of evolution is based on speculation and not valid scientific observation and testing |
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| Most scientists accept evolutionary theory to be a scientifically valid theory |
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| There is a significant body of data that supports evolutionary theory |
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| Humans exist today in essentially the same form in which they always have |
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| Evolution is a scientifically valid theory |
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| Current evolutionary theory is the result of sound scientific research and methodology |
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| Corporations are not respectful of laws |
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| Corporations do not accept accountability for their actions |
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| People who run corporations will lie if doing so will increase company profits |
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| Corporations do not care about acting ethically |
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| Corporations will break laws if they can make more money from it |
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| Corporations put their own interests above the public’s interests |
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| Corporations are driven by greed |
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| Corporations care only about money |
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| Corporations want power at any cost |
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| Corporations take a lot more than they give |
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| Corporations intentionally deceive the public |
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| Corporations do not consider the needs of their employees when making business decisions |
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| Corporations exploit their workers |
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| I have so much in life to be thankful for |
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| If I had to list everything that I felt grateful for, it would be a very long list |
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| When I look at the world, I don’t see much to be grateful for |
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| I am grateful to a wide variety of people |
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| As I get older I find myself more able to appreciate the people, events, and situations that have been part of my life history |
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| Long amounts of time can go by before I feel grateful to something or someone |
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ManicBeancounter 
Brian H
/ 30/07/2012So, what’s the point? What were the results of the “survey”? It seems designed to look for political/religious/scientific attitudes, probably subject to biased interpretation, but your post gives little info about the outcomes.
manicbeancounter
/ 30/07/2012Please see by later “Lewandowsky et al. 2012” postings and the original paper. Also my analysis of the questionnaire in June.
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Blackadder
/ 30/08/2012This is not the exactly the same survey as used in the “Lewandowsky et al. 2012″ paper, although some of the questions are the same.
For example, the paper (see table 2 at the end) has a question about Pearl Harbor that is not on your list. Also there was a question about acid rain not being a serious threat.
I think the survey you have here is a later modification.
Follow Jo Nova’s blog for more to come on this story.
manicbeancounter
/ 30/08/2012Thanks for that Blackadder. Do you know where I might obtain a copy of the original questionnaire? I can see now that the survey I took was a later modification. However, there are more similarities than differences.
I have now the raw data on the Lewandowsky paper and will post both here and Jo Nova’s blog in the coming days.
manicbeancounter
/ 01/09/2012You are correct. I will post up a correction.
The comparison should be with the results of the four questions on beliefs in the Climate Science to be found on Page 27 of the paper. I have been working on this comparison and hope to post up something in the next 24 hours.