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What are we really arguing about when we argue about climate change?

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 04, 2009

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Members of the public are drifting into the climate change sceptic camp in recent months and years. How do we stem the flow? From Carbon Commentary, part of the Guardian Environment Network

The phrase 'the science is settled' is regularly used by politicians arguing for meaningful action on climate change. To the majority of the world's scientists, global warming is a clear and present danger and those who deny it, or argue that its effects will limited or benign, are dangerous lunatics. Nevertheless, an increasing numbers of voters, particularly in the US and the UK, have drifted into the sceptic camp in recent months and years. A Pew Research October survey in the US showed the percentage of people seriously concerned by the climate change issue down from 77% to 65% in two years. An international survey by HSBC showed a fall from 32% to 25% over the past year in the percentage of people saying that climate change was the biggest issue that respondents worried about.

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