A Mind-Numbingly Stupid Climate Change Survey Goes Horribly Wrong

You are right, it is long, but worth it. It was fun.

You also need to look up which party you would vote for in an election.

Oh good lord, The H and N circles, who designed this crap? I chose the The Hummer Club Inc. as my Environmental organization to donate the $200.00 too.

I was looking for a spot to blast them about their assumption of being able to classify peoples political beliefs on a linear right-left axis but no such occasion arose. Did put "Gaia worshipper" as my religion. Yet another survey of the form "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" and think there were a few opportunities where I made it known that reverting to a primitive lifestyle is not how one deals with natural climate change.

Absolutely asinine questions about emotions in bees and whether bees secrete uric acid crystals or not. Actually, humans are the only animals with gout but birds are capable of excreting nitrogen wastes as uric acid. Likely we'll see the results of this survey as proving either:
(a) the people of New Zealand want to tax themselves back into the stone age or
(b) nasty agents funded by oil companies screwed up my survey and forever ended my chance of getting a lucrative government funded job.

"Aside from Ents (of whom I've never met one) there's no such thing as a sentient plant."

Good thing to because if marijuana plants were sentient, they'd be perpetually stoned on themselves, just like Obama.

wow, what a load of merde that was.

Dr Milfont, Applied Social Psychology.

He's probably had his PhD long enough, and should now pass it along to someone else in a disadvantaged group.

it would require a real whack job to come up with that survey. these people are dangerous. To have such people drafting policy is frightening. Yet you know that is what they are doing.

I found it interesting to note that the authors of the survey had to be schizophrenic or cognitively damaged to write that survey.

I said NZ of 2050 would look like detroit of 2005.

"Mind numbing" is not the vernacular I would use to describe the nature of these questions. "Brain sick" or delusional is more apropos.

Questions that attempt to pidgeon-hole you into stereotypical concepts like group association based on politics, religion, economic/educational class, race and ethnicity then relate that to attitudes on AGW (AKA climate change)is soooooo commie propagandist.

They were leading to a preconceived end result - maybe SDA input will clip that result short. They come from the presumption there are no individuals, just groups, that government is a function unto itself which has authority to set you moral and ethical prerogatives for you in a need dictated by your "group" and that all action affecting human society and thenatural world comes from government, not individual action/initiative.

Yes Ken, it was fun blowing their tiny narrow Marxist minds

Eagle,

Detroit of 2005 would be too good for these people.....

I just got a "free" copy of Maclean's in the mail. A lot
of the articles could have been written by the same people
who made up this survey....

Gave up. Crock of crap.

New Zealand in 2050 following this agenda....

"medieval at best..."

I said basically that the NZ of 2050 would have reverted to savagery, and the few remaining sheep would be nervous.

Probably be like a CBC poll. As soon as it looks like the intended result is in danger, the supporters will magically increase in multiples of 500.

New Zealand First Party....hoping to also vote for them in our next federal election.

Said my donation should go to the Newmont Waihi Gold Mining company

"You can complete this survey whether you believe climate change is occurring or not"

That way they never get the 97% agree massage those other scientists got.

Wow! So stupid it was compelling!

And I'm a left-wing 25 year old rich girl that lives downtown who votes Green but doesn't know if they have a policy!

I completed the survey. When asked about what New Zealand would be like in 2050 if we adopted climate action policies, I said it would be like New Zealand in 1850.

How likely is it that dogs produce uric acid crystals? I know they are well known for marking their territory (and yours) through the use of urine.

That should skew their results.
Gordinkneehill made me laugh.

Dalmatians produce uric acid crystals, due to a liver defect universal in that breed. I tried to point that out in the answer, to no avail.

The NRA is getting my donation. My religion was listed as "Seriously, f- off." There won't be a New Zealand in 2050, the Chicoms will have strip-mined it below the waterline.

I wasted a lot of drinking time, trying to teach worms to tie their shoes.

They just couldn't grasp the basic concept: "TIE YOUR FRICKIN SHOES!!!".

stupid worms....

I'm a Canadian living in NZ. Thanks for the pointer to this survey.

On the party question: I think most libertarian minded readers of this blog would go with the ACT party, and Harper Conservatives for the John Key Conservatives.