contribution by Climate Sock Another week, another shonky poll? On Friday the BBC reported their new survey, which they claimed showed a clear drop in the number of people who believe in climate change or that it’s man-made. After the BBC’s inaccurate coverage of a climate poll last year, I was ready for this to be another bit of mis-reporting ripe for a take-down.

To dismiss the implications of climate change based on an error about the rate at which Himalayan glaciers are melting is an act of astonishing intellectual legerdemain. Yet this is what some doubters of climate change are claiming. But the reality is that our understanding of climate change is based on

Much glee - even astonishment - in the blogosphere that the BBC has finally produced a balanced piece about climate change. There have been a few corners in the beeb where the coverage has been unbiased, but the thrust has been that climate change is manmade. In their main bulletins and programmes this is what you get. It's too soon to know whether this is the start of balanced reporting, or ...

A few faked email stats and suddenly the entire edifice of climate change is in the balance. There's no doubt that the revelation of less than pure scientific method being used by the prominent climate change boffins at the University of East Anglia has given a new lease of life to the climate change deniers, or climo-sceptics. But, as we get ready to see our leaders parading their concern at the ...

The Guardian has one of its climate change scare scoops for us all to panic about today. Their good friend and climate change guru, Professor Robert Watson has held court and it is clear from what he says that we are all doomed. The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government's chief scientific advisers. In policy areas

BBC environment correspondent Richard Black keeps up the column acreage on the evils of man made climate change in front page story on the BBC News website today. It even includes a photograph and caption that is a reminder to devout Catholics to believe in this new religion too: An opinion poll in 11 countries has produced what organisers term a "global mandate" for action on climate change.

BusinessGreen recently claimed that on both sides of the Atlantic 'belief' in climate change has been less dented by the Climategate scandal as first thought. The choice of words is telling in and of itself. Apparently climate change is now purely a matter of faith. You can read all about it in businessGreen. In the meantime, we're doing an unscientific survey of our own to see if w...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Tuesday regarding Climate change, and among the topics that popped up was the threat Climate change presented to national security. There is quite a bit of thought going into the potential, but let me ask a question... If Climate Change is so serious that we would apply a $600 billion cap and trade 'tax' on energy in the US, and we...

Individuals are less willing to change their lifestyles or spend money to stop climate change according to new research showing attitudes to climate change as the economy slows down.

Why are so many intelligent people taken in by the climate change argument? I have long (and genuinely) suspected I'm missing something. So I tuned in to Start The Week to hear Sir Nicholas Stern back with a new book on climate change - which (surprise, surprise) he says has grown far worse since he came out with his review in Oct 06.  Andrew Marr asked him why he, with a "flip of t...