h/t Schrodinger’s Cat How much of a climate deplorable are you? NYT has published an offensive climate quiz, apparently aimed at helping readers discover whether they should ever buy another copy of the New York Times.
Trump Has Choices to Make on Climate Policy. What Would You Do?
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG FEB. 2, 2017
Donald Trump and his cabinet have sent mixed signals on some big environmental decisions they face. Take this interactive quiz and see where the different possible choices lead.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/science/donald-trump-global-warming-quiz.html
Apparently I’m a climate deplorable – after completing the quiz, NYT provided the following in my opinion deeply offensive comment about my choices.
You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.
On the upside for President Trump, Republicans in Congress and many of the people who voted for him will support most of your decisions. We guess it’s true what they say about dark clouds (something about silver linings?).
Well done New York Times – in the unlikely event that you still have any climate skeptic readers, this quiz should help ensure they dump your publication.
Oh my, it will be all my fault if CAGW happens! I would like to think that this quiz is giving the NYT a better idea of where Americans stand on climate. But I suspect the majority of their readers gave all the “correct” answers….
PMK
I got the same result. AAAH the NYT! So glad I did not take a programming job there, that I was once considering. I think I would have been fired for my heretical beliefs.
“How Did You Do?
You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.
“On the upside for President Trump, Republicans in Congress and many of the people who voted for him will support most of your decisions. We guess it’s true what they say about dark clouds (something about silver linings?).”
– BTW, when did Congress approve & ratify the Paris Climate “Treaty”… as claimed by that NYT’s quiz?
“The United States have ratified the agreement and the legally binding requirements that come with it.”
I must have slept through it.
It happened. In Tatiana’s dreams.
They call it “agreement”, not “treaty”. Read what she wrote very carefully – those people actually know that they are lying – this is why word treaty is not found anywhere there…
“jmichna February 2, 2017 at 8:38 am
– BTW, when did Congress approve & ratify the Paris Climate “Treaty”… as claimed by that NYT’s quiz?”
I have made posts to this effect at the SMH and News.com.au here in Australia and both were not posted. The MSM are trying to hide the truth, again!
I am utterly deplorable, according to the NYT’s Lysenko-esque faux survey.
And this particular question really stood out as an example of how despicable the NYT has become about dishonestly informing its readers:
“Time for some international decisions
Mr. Trump said during the campaign that he would cancel the Paris agreement, in part because he thinks it’s bad for business. (Many businesses disagree.)
The United States have ratified the agreement and the legally binding requirements that come with it.
If the United States withdraws from the agreement, other countries have indicated they may try to punish the United States with sanctions.
So what should Mr. Trump do about the Paris agreement: cancel it or leave it in place?”
The “Paris Accords” are *not* ratified by the United States.
The NYT either knows that or should know that basic bit of Constitutional Law. Either way, their many readers who lack critical thinking skills will be misinformed.
It’s Fake News.
From a fake newspaper.
That quiz is so perfectly…perfect.
I scored a perfectly perfect zero on their desired answers.
Some of the questions were extremely badly worded and I was concerned that I might not get the right answer -but like you I cam out as a deplorable!!
The United States have ratified the agreement and the legally binding requirements that come with it.
Oooh, what a whopper!
Indeed, Juice. Ignorant to the point of imbecility or just plain liars.
And poor writers (isn’t that what their business is??), to boot:
Incorrect: The United States have
Comment: “The United States” is an single entity, a country. It is short for “United States of America.”
Correct (though poor style): The united states have
arrrrrrrgh — “is a single…”
Perhaps Tatiana is affecting British English, where groups, companies, etc., are regarded as plural: “Ford are here.”
Mr. Kafkazar — are you serious? I wonder if they would say, “The business entity are or is?” Wow. The divide between British and American English is, I’ve come to realize, far more than just a parting of ways over spelling or like mundane issues. Using sort of a “royal we” in that context reveals that British and Americans, at some deep level, think differently about the world. That appears to be why we/they differ on such things as, “He’s in the hospital” and “He’s in hospital.”
“Ford are … .” Amazing.
Janice, it was (and in my mind still is) proper to use “These United States.” Until Federalism was turned upside down by progressives, individual States made up the whole and were assumed to have all the powers not granted the Federal government or the People by our Constitution.
The current situation goes to show how centralized big money spread around can pollute any good idea of governance. A good (bad?) example is withholding Federal monies if schools do not do everything the Department of Education illegally tells them to do. The progressives at UC Berkeley may come to regret that, though, based on President The Donald’s response to the riots.
If the Dems lose even more seats after the midterm (likely if they continue to be so obstructive, petulant, and overall insufferable), we could have a real opportunity to correct one of the biggest mistakes in our history. A realistic chance of repealing the 17th amendment. This would be key to restoring proper federalism, and would also deliver the deathblow to the progressive Democrats as a politically significant group. Hopefully President Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress are made aware of this possibility.
Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Fair, about “these United States.” I agree, but, I would not, now, capitalize “united” in that phrase anymore (except, of course, in quoting, e.g., John Adams or writing in the style of an older style writer), for, to me that is archaic language. And, of course, I will, here, as to that phrase, not argue the point about its being archaic. It is very possible that it is only my “ear” for words which is giving me that impression; it may still be good modern useage to most Americans. And who would be right? They would! Language is what is spoken and written by the majority of educated people using it.
And, again, I may be incorrect, but, to my “ear,” “the United States” is (in modern use) always the name of the country, and not = to “the united states.”.
And, yes, long live federalism WITH “powers reserved” state sovereignty!
The United States has………………………………..
In Trump’s America, the liberal media-entertainment complex are the walking dead. They still think we care what they think and say. We don’t.
How Did You Do?
You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.
On the upside for President Trump, Republicans in Congress and many of the people who voted for him will support most of your decisions. We guess it’s true what they say about dark clouds (something about silver linings?).
Start Over
I like the fact they give you a do-over.
Not many surveys or polls give you a chance to correct your failings.
Have you stopped beating your wife?
Option 1: Yes.
Option 2: No.
An oldie, but a goodie. [OK, I admit, you made me giggle]
On the NYT web site, the quiz won’t show you a question until you’ve answered the previous one. So I took the quiz, gave all the “wrong” answers, and saved it all here, so you can read it and laugh at it without having to bother with answering the questions:
http://www.webcitation.org/6nypHuF0m
I also sent the quiz’s author a tweet:
https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/827193151836319744
It’s like Dave Burton is so stupid his poll was a sincere best effort and not a tongue in cheek parody.
She extolled the wonders of a wind farm off RI. Of course her great uncle Ted fought one that would have spoiled his view from the Kennedy Compound.
He’s deceased so she no longer cares.
She cares enough to make sure he votes every year.
Oh my, is the planet happy?
Now I am sure Gaia is more then happy with more CO2, plants like CO2:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
letter by letter:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/photo/photo_subject_a.php
More plants => more everything, we all live on plants, increased biosphere
I think Freeman Dyson made an estimation how many people live now due to the extra CO2 that is in the atmosphere since the pre-industrial time.
The result was at least 15%
That is 1 000 000 000 people out of the current 7 000 000 000!
It is not so difficult to make the calculation, then look at the numbers and think.
So what are these clowns arguing for?
Shouldn’t a quiz test someone’s knowledge of a subject? Rather than a knee-jerk “What would you do?” OH, I forgot, the science is settled.
Gee, I did a very bad job according the the NY Times. So I guess I gave the correct answers.
If you would like second opinion (without the insults), see blow:
The Paris Paradigm: The What is your ‘Skeptic Score’?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/?s=Paris+Paradigm
The so-called “Quiz” was stupid.
It’s a little dated (so imagine it’s ~10 years ago) but here’s a real scientific quiz – http://geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
Well Tatiana, that ‘quiz’ was deplorable….
Do I get a participation ribbon?
http://i.imgur.com/2D49CXT.jpg
How Did You Do?
You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.
:-)))
“Justice Department to continue to defend the law, or just drop it.”
It is not a law it is a decree made by the last POTUS, King Obama. POTUS Clinton tried many of the same things while attacking the coal and nuclear industries. Most did not survive court challenges.
POTUS Bush did it correctly and congress passed new regulations on old coal plants. As a result many old inefficient coal plants closed. Generally speaking, the power industry want consistent regulations so that it can make decisions.
It was very definitely poorly worded queries. Many would have had different answers if they had been phrased better or allowed for a third option. Like
Uphold the Law
Scrap the Law
Rewrite the Law to exclude CO2 as a pollutant
Do you receive a score in dear polar bears?
Wow, The NYT got their quiz wrong. Better luck next time.
Like most of the others here I got the “You did a very bad job protecting the environment and may have made many of the worst effects of climate change more likely. It could hardly have been worse.”
Well it is worse.
I heat my house and hot water with coal along with driving a 53 year old polluting automobile during the summer.
Took the test.
I am simply single handed ruining the whole globe. Just wonder why all the greens can not save it unless all goes in for it. All have to agree before anything can be done. Even a single misbeliever can ruin the whole plan.
Maybe it is because they have no plan. We shall fight, protest, make our representatives act, and on and on it goes, but not any specific direction. The problem is told to be the problem of our life time, but they wont say what is the most important issue to deal with to a start.
LOL. All her supporting links just point to NYT opinion pieces. No wonder she got so much wrong – look at where she got her information! NYT == FAKE NEWS
That wasn’t a quiz it was propaganda. Goebbels would be proud.