{"id":731749,"date":"2010-05-24T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5762"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T04:01:23","slug":"climate-change-concern-declines-in-poll-by-owen-bowcott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731749","title":{"rendered":"Climate change concern declines in poll by Owen Bowcott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=19\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Public Polls&quot;\">Public Polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong><em>Only 62% of Britons interested in subject, down from 80% in 2006, according to YouGov survey<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Popular concern about climate change has declined significantly, following this year&#8217;s harsh winter and rows over statistics on global warming, a survey has found.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of those interested in where Britain&#8217;s electricity comes from have also slipped back, according to a survey commissioned by the energy company EDF, demonstrating what appears to be growing consumer complacency in an era of electric-powered gadgetry.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time resistance to building new nuclear power stations appears to be slackening. The results of the YouGov poll, based on a sample of 4,300 adults questioned during the week after the general election, show that interest in climate change fell from 80% of respondents in 2006, to 71% last year and now stands at only 62%. Only 80% say they are interested in where electrical power is made, down from 82% the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Other recent polls have recorded a similar drop in public alarm about the imminence of climate-triggered disaster. The number of climate change agnostics \u2013 those unsure whether human activity is warming the planet \u2013 has risen from 25% in 2007 to 33% now.<\/p>\n<p>Click source to read more from Owen Bowcott<\/p>\n<p>Source: guardian.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5762\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1G7u8i8xASF1JQSjgBDN1YFBp0Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1G7u8i8xASF1JQSjgBDN1YFBp0Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1G7u8i8xASF1JQSjgBDN1YFBp0Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1G7u8i8xASF1JQSjgBDN1YFBp0Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/0pO5kZyIXBU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Public Polls Only 62% of Britons interested in subject, down from 80% in 2006, according to YouGov survey Popular concern about climate change has declined significantly, following this year&#8217;s harsh winter and rows over statistics on global warming, a survey has found. The numbers of those interested in where Britain&#8217;s electricity comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}