In the United States, one-in-five respondents (20%, -5) think that global warming is a theory that has not yet been proven, along with 20 per cent of Britons (+2) and 14 per cent of Canadians
Britons Question Global Warming More Than Americans And Canadians
By Guest Column Benny Peiser——Bio and Archives--September 13, 2011
Britain has become the main source of skepticism, with the lowest proportion of believers in man-made global warming, and with a third of Britons acknowledging that they would foster economic growth even at the risk of damaging the environment. --Angus Reid Public Opinion, 12 September 2011
Consultancy Enventi believes it has uncovered evidence showing current UK Government policies are stalling offshore wind development. --re News, 13 September 2011
Under current difficult global and regional European energy conditions, signalled by the sovereign debt crisis and national budget deficit crises, making a rapid and high cost shift to renewable, alternate and low carbon energy is unrealistic. A shift to natural gas is the more rational and cost-effective solution. --Andrew MacKillop, 12 September 2011
According to some sources the extent of sea-ice in the Arctic is at a record low this summer meaning that ice-free summers are in prospect in perhaps a few decades, or possibly sooner. But as is often the case with climate change, and seems to be always the case in the reporting of climate change in the media, things are not as simple as that. --David Whitehouse, The Observatory, 13 September 2011
So there you have it. Per this study, shutting down all coal-fired power plants and not even replacing them would cause the temperature to increase in the short term because of the loss of sunlight-reflecting pollutants. Thus, the real story here is about the secondary effect of coal-fired power plants and not about any deficiencies of natural gas. --Robert Rapier, R-Squared, 12 September 2011
