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By: Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward

Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward | Left Foot Forward — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:12:13 +0000

[...] backbencher Douglas Carswell, who on Wednesday sought to turn back the clock half a century by demanding a referendum on the Treaty of Rome, putting him [...]

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:08:31 +0000

Don’t think Anon E Mouse is quite right on the facts here. There was an ICM poll in the Torygraph (5th December) which showed:

52% think climate change is largely man-made
39% believe that it is not proven that climate change is man-made
7% think there is no climate change

Of course, it’s not the only poll on the subject.

By: Liz McShane

Liz McShane — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:52:46 +0000

Typical Tory looking back to some golden bygone era – a bit like Major’s cricket nostalgia. Thank God for what was the EEC, then EC and now EU it was the thing that got the country through the dark days of Thatcherism.

By: Anon E Mouse

Anon E Mouse — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:45:56 +0000

Shamik – You are absolutely right, more people believe it is NOT man made than think it is in all polls, both here and in the US…

By: Shamik Das

Shamik Das — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:27:45 +0000

Beleive it or not, there are some people out there who do deny the existence of man made climate change.

By: Bill Kristol-Balls

Bill Kristol-Balls — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:06:54 +0000

Whilst I’m hugely enthusiastic about the raison d’être of this very fine website, I would suggest that you don’t refer to people as ‘climate deniers’.

I’m sure Professor Frink, sorry I meant the Right Honourable Douglas Carswell MP, does not deny the reality of there being a climate, even though reality is well known to have an innate liberal bias (hat-tip S.Colbert).

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:00:50 +0000

What’s a climate-denier?

And how is being concerned about the way parliament has been cowed under New Labour a conspiracy theory? Many sensible people hold this view.