In this recent post

Jit examines a paper by Coan, Boussalis, Cook, & Nanko: “Computer‐assisted classification of contrarian claims about climate change” which attempts to produce a taxonomy of claims made by denialists (sceptics / contrarians.)

The training material for coders who analysed sceptical material (Supplementary Methods S1.1.1) contains this “quick, 10-word introduction to climate change:”

There are 5 key facts that summarize everything you need to know about climate change. And they are: 1. It’s real 2. It’s us 3. It’s bad 4. There’s hope 5. Experts agree

For the authors of the paper, all the above five points are true, and denialism (scepticism / contrarianism) is defined by disagreement with one or more of them.

Survey

Please indicate in a comment below this post whether you believe each of the above five statements to be TRUE, FALSE, or MIXED, where “MIXED” covers any other possibility, e.g. “partly true and partly false,” “sometimes true and sometimes false,” “true in some circumstances and false in others,” “statement ambiguous / meaning not clear,” “impossible to determine at present” etc.

It would help if you give your response as a simple list of the five questions, (or their numbers) followed by the the words “TRUE,” “FALSE,” or “MIXED,” without comments, until we’ve got a satisfactory number of responses. I’ll explain the purpose of the survey afterwards. Unlike Furious Lew, I won’t be telling you what I think of you while the survey data is being collected, but once responses are closed there’ll be plenty of opportunity to discuss.