Article Tags: BBC, Public Polls, You could not make it up
Over the last few months, a number of British commentators have been trumpeting an increase in scepticism about climate change.
The cold weather (often claimed – incorrectly – to be a hemisphere-wide phenomenon), the University of East Anglia e-mail hack, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s lack of rigour over projections of Himalayan glacier melt, the weak outcome from the Copenhagen summit: all these and more have been proclaimed as factors that are said to be deflecting the public away from climate concern
Now comes evidence from an opinion poll – commissioned by the BBC, carried out by Populus – indicating that in Britain at least, tales of increasing scepticism may be true.
The headline stats are that between November last year and the beginning of February this year, there has been a net 9% downwards swing in the proportion of Britons believing that “the Earth’s climate is changing and global warming is taking place”.
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Source: bbc.co.uk