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Climate scepticism still rife among Tory MPs poll

2014-09-10 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Climate scepticism is still rife among the Tory parliamentary party, according to a new poll of MPs. More than twice as many Conservative MPs as Labour MPs who responded to the poll cast doubt on scientists having conclusively proved climate change is caused by humans, despite the worlds most authoritative panel of climate scientists last year saying they were 95% that recent global warming is manmade. The news came as Downing Street confirmed that David Cameron would be attending a crucial...

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'Climategate' had only fleeting effect on global warming scepticism

2014-05-21 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Media storms attacking the science of climate change have only a fleeting effect on the public's interest and do not appear to alter opinions, according to new research. Oxford University scientists used the Google Trends tool to track web searches related to global warming over the past decade but found that peaks of interest in major stories, such as the leaking of climate scientists emails in 2009 dubbed climategate disappeared within a few weeks. We found that intense media coverage...

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Climate scepticism blamed as Owen Paterson slashes spending on global warming

2014-01-26 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Owen Paterson has been accused of incredible complacency over climate change after new figures showed his department has slashed spending on helping Britain cope with global warming. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) will spend just 17.2m on domestic climate change initiatives this financial year, a 41 per cent decline on the previous 12 months, according to its response to a freedom of information request. The figures will fuel fears that the Environment Secretarys...

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Pacific nations 'very disappointed' by Tony Abbott's climate scepticism

2013-10-24 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Tony Abbott is risking the future of Australia's Pacific island neighbours by "burying his head in the sand" over climate change, according to Tony de Brum, the minister assisting the president of the Marshall Islands. De Brum told Guardian Australia that the Marshall Islands and other Pacific nations had been "very disappointed" with the new Coalition government's decision to scrap carbon pricing and abolish bodies such as the Climate Commission. On Wednesday, Abbott said that Christiana Figueres,...

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