Half of Telegraph readers belief climate change a ‘natural phenomenon’. 98% of scientists disagree

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On the back of chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change committee Tim Yeo's comments that climate change may not be man-made after all, the Telegraph have done a poll asking its readers if they think the same.

On the back of chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change committee Tim Yeo’s comments that climate change may not be man-made after all, the Telegraph have done a poll asking readers if they think the same.

After voting in the poll – I voted ‘yes completely’, as you might have guessed – you get the results. And guess what – a whopping 48 per cent of Telegraph readers believe that climate change is a ‘completely natural phenomenon’.

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Rather than berate readers of the Telegraph for their views myself, I’ll leave the floor to Martin Wolf of the Financial Times (£):

An analysis of abstracts of 11,944 peer-reviewed scientific papers, published between 1991 and 2011 and written by 29,083 authors, concludes that 98.4 per cent of authors who took a position endorsed man-made (anthropogenic) global warming, 1.2 per cent rejected it and 0.4 per cent were uncertain.

Never underestimate the power of self-denial.

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22 Responses to “Half of Telegraph readers belief climate change a ‘natural phenomenon’. 98% of scientists disagree”

  1. Bp

    Understanding the impacts we’ve had and continue to have on the planet should be second nature to people. It’s unfortunate that with everything around us to remind us of our own mortality and inherent connection to the natural world, so many people have become desensitized to the immutable fact that cause and effect IS reality, and to assume that the likes of who we are and what we do stop in preference to our lifestyles and self-serving bias is short-sighted indeed. Wake up, ya filthy animals.

  2. Eso-Policier

    We need Eco and Eso (Rudolf Steiner, C. G. Jung). Read more
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  3. Sparkyboy

    Ah, but what do Telegraph-reading scientists think?

  4. Beyond Prophecy

    So the scientists are sceptical about the many “ages” earth has experienced and continues to do so….?

  5. paul

    Yet of the 29,083 authors – all but 27 were rejected by the software that analyised the abstracts. So the 98.4% figure was based on a mere 27. That sort of ‘science’ we can do without

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