Take this at your leisure, answer honestly. Link follows.
Take the Tol Poll here
1. Yes, THAT Richard Tol
2. Yes, the data will be made available, see end page.
UPDATE: the poll has been hacked by some zealot it appears, don’t bother. I’ll advise if there is a second one. -Anthony
UPDATE2:
As far as I can see, there was no hack. Someone got a bot to submit 10,000 answers, though. I cannot remove these at the moment, as I exceeded my quota. The interweb tells me that is temporary.
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I think there is a method to this madness.
aye i can kind of see where the poll wants to go maybe. Will be likely to get that result. However even if the result and comments that Tol is likely to be what i’m thinking of… no one would dare publish it because it hits at the heart of the “good guys”.
ok guys, that was a serious question
The last question “how do you rate yourself”….
“very worried about the impacts of climate change” is on both ends of the 1-5
Is that a “1” for not worried at all?
…or would that be a “5” for very friendly
The last question is not clear to me at all….
Anthony Watts……LOL….
I can’t go back and review the results or spreadsheet. Unless if it may be possible to vote again to follow the results, which I did not do.
Also the ratings of “nasty or friendly” could have been better worded. I just had to make my own interpretation to complete the survey. 97% feel the same way!
Well I can’t answer any of the questions, especially the last as it could have several meanings. How would I know if people are nice or nasty, perhaps I should refer to Santa’s naughty or nice list.
My rating for Michael Mann is -7,483
results are here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Jit3_SHFvSD4pwMeY7qw1HkDUlHBNHxFXgJ8KX3OivA/viewanalytics
Also are we having like a “phase I” with this as just WUWT or can we start spamming this to the cult sites?
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When I didn’t know enough about the name, I left it blank. It still “finished”.
But I agree, there should be a “I don’t know” option and “friendly” is hardly a term that has any scientific relevance.
And what exactly is the purpose of this poll? Science is not a popularity contest, you might as well ask who is prettier.. it would make as much difference..
I vote for Judith C as prettiest!
@temp you can do anything you want with it. (except cheat) No rules given by Tol. Widely distributed on twitter.
I was over at CA earlier today
http://climateaudit.org/2013/08/01/lewandowskys-backdating/
I might be wrong…
Nine people rate Hutticelli “very friendly”. Seven people rate Watts “very nasty.” Now come on. Clearly these people are confusing push answers with answering honestly.
Lawrence Todd says:
August 2, 2013 at 3:19 pm
“My rating for Michael Mann is -7,483”
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
/snigger
Well I hope the surprise is worth the wait. If the concerns or not about AGW are coupled with likely responses I still can’t see a surprise at the end. How long before we see the result of this nonsense?
ok, so this little “beauty” (popularity) contest has just as much (i.e., just as little) relevance to assessments of climate science as the Cook et al. nonsense??
I’m guessing this is meant to set up some such comparisons…..
HenrikM says: @ur momisugly August 2, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Annoying, one option should be “do not know”, I do not recognize all the names!
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So do what I did, search the name and read what they have to say.
(In many cases I knew the blog just not the name.)
Latitude says:
August 2, 2013 at 3:16 pm
…“very worried about the impacts of climate change” is on both ends of the 1-5
….The last question is not clear to me at all….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..
You read the question wrong. One is about the effects of the weather (5) and the other is worry about the effects of GOVERNMENT (1)
o the things the human mind see… like how marc morano’s graph is giving everyone the bird… i’m sure he would be proud lol
I don’t agree with judging folk in this manner. I will not take the poll.
I thought before I opened it that it was about folks views and beliefs, etc…
I was very dissapointed in such a poll as this.
It is not for us to judge folk in this type of manner
Leabe it all in the truth and Good Lord/’s hands
We may not agree with their ideas, but sorry I
do not like this poll at all!
Love it!
Well done to the R & A!
Thanks Gail!….
If this goes any furthet, this will be a typical “denier blog”. It does nothing for sceptics who are not convinced by the alatmist narrative.
I know that this can be presented as a couner-poll to those that have produced a preponderence of “believers” in AGW.
This is a descent into the gutter and any academic credebility that Tol may have is is suspect..
Personally, I think this (rather silly) poll demonstrates the integrity of sceptics:
Even though the results are (currently) good for the sceptic camp, WUWTers are still quite rightly denigrating the silly exercise.
Imagine the trumpeting and hallelujahs that would emanate from Rantin’ Romm, Cartoonist Cookie, and Nuttyjelly if the poll results were going their way! They would be extolling the virtues of this ‘scientifically rigorous’ poll.
Why the change at the last question?
I wanted to say ‘Nasty’