Global Warming Exaggerated, Say Soaring Number of Britons
The number of Brits who think the dangers of global warming have been exaggerated has jumped by more than 50% in the past four years, while nearly 90% say they do not support energy bills rising to pay for Net Zero. The revelations come in new polling for the Times, which has the story.
One in four voters now believe that concerns over climate change are not as real as scientists have said, amid growing public concern at the cost of the Government’s Net Zero policies.
Less than a third of the public (30%) are in favour of banning new petrol and diesel cars — down from 51% in 2021.
Only 16% of voters said they would be prepared to pay higher gas bills to encourage the switch to electricity.
Experts said the findings showed that growing climate scepticism within mainstream politics in both Britain and the US was cutting through with voters, as the broad consensus on climate action breaks down. …
Four years ago climate change was identified as the fourth most important issue facing the country ahead of immigration and asylum, education and crime.
At the time only 11 per cent of the 1,600-plus people questioned said that global warming was not the result of human activity while only 16% believed that the warnings from scientists about its implications were exaggerated.
Now climate change has fallen right down the list of the public concerns while there has been a marked increase in climate scepticism. The environment has fallen behind issues such as the economy and immigration, but is still above education, transport and Brexit.
Today 16% of voters think global warming is not the result of human activity, while 25% think the threat has been exaggerated.
The findings come amid growing concern at the top of government that its climate change policies could cost it votes at the next election.
Nigel Farage has called for Net Zero policies to be scrapped, saying the backlash against green energy could become the “new Brexit” while the Conservatives have announced a review of their support for climate change policies amid warnings from Kemi Badenoch that the political consensus “cannot hold”.
Badenoch told the Times that the polling showed plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 will not work. She said: “Keir Starmer is living in a fantasy land while families pay the price. That is why I have said plainly: Net Zero in its current form is impossible.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: With Keir Starmer telling his new Cabinet that their priority must be “growth growth growth”, Ed Miliband’s extortionate Net Zero schemes may not survive November’s Budget, says the Telegraph.
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WTF is an Environmental Psychologist? Why does Cardiff U have a Professor of that subject?
A made-up “scientific discipline” would be my answer. An area of “study” that piggybacks on the current political affinity for climate doom-mongering and wouldn’t exist without it.
I fink it’s about wot the trees and clouds are finking – the environment. like?
Surely not so much what they’re thinking as how they feel about what they’re thinking?
You got an ‘ology‘ you’re a scientist!
Why does Cardiff U have a Professor of that subject?
Because somebody is dumb enough to fund the job and sadly it might be the usual suspects – the poor taxpayer. While it might be a good idea for these non-jobs to be funded by the Trillionare Green Blob it then creates a powerful lobby that people with low IQs – MPs – will bow down to as they consider them to have ‘prestige’ and my god do they love sucking up to those sorts just as much as Lord Sleaze of Mandelson does anyone rich.
Perhaps it’s because Reform thinks it’s Net Stupid Zero.
I wonder how much taxpayers are shelling out to subsidise the ‘ology the numpties who have signed on for this nonsense will eventually brandish ….. as they fail to ever get a decent job.
Straws in the wind, and good to see it in the Times, in media terms,scentrist dad central.
As Cristo Foufas said last night, more people disbelieve man made climate change than voted Labour. That sounds good, except it’s not just Labour voters, it’s LibDem, Green and the rump of the Cameron/Johnson Conservative voters who still cling to this ridiculous religion. Despite everything that the useless Tory leader says, she is never going to change that traitorous group. As a Reform member, I can’t understand why mad Nad has been allowed into the party. She’s totally signed up to COP26, just like Johnson and has nothing in common with me.
Hear, hear – especially when the dim Dorries is still enfatuated with the lying oaf Johnson.
Yup. I struggle to understand why Dorries was allowed to defect.
GB News had this on Good Morning Britain with the Irish leprechaun spouting the lies against Andrew Montford. I am not sure if it is better to have a head to head or have them on separately where you can mute the econutter. Depends on the quality of the presenter in asking the right questions and slapping down the bullshit.
Somebody’s going to be in big trouble with the real rulers of the world.
Interfere with the elite globalist cabal at your peril.
Some of the MSM appear to be disobeying the rules.
People say, in surveys, they do not support or would not be prepared to pay for things they are already being forced to do and to pay for. It is high time an organisation other than Refoirm came out with detailed data on the loading put on electricity, gas and petrol/diesel costs to fund Net Zero scams.
Why doesn’t GWPF do it and demand BBC introduce them as an independent research group to comment on this the way they introduce left wing activists as if they were independent. I suppose one reason is the BBC producers and presenters regulary meet and drink with the lefties whereas they would not know the name of GWPF or how to find its phone nuymber.
‘…well-funded attack on net zero…’? Do go on and name and shame.
I realise it’s 2025 and you can be anything you want to be but changing sex mid-soundbite is a bit confusing.
I get that it may be trending in the right direction, but 3 out of 4 still think it’s all as bad as the scientists say.
And of the 1 in 4 who don’t we don’t know how many still think it’s bad, just not as bad.
There is still a long way to go to stopping this craziness.
Well yes, the majority say the wild shroud-waving is not an exaggeration, but they also say they wouldn’t be prepared for (almost) anything to increase in price in an effort to ‘combat it’.
So, are they evil? After all, we all know the world is boiling, but they aren’t prepared to put their hands in their pockets to un-boil it?
Or are they shrewd, realising that increasing taxes is very unlikely to have any effect on global climate?
Or are they confused/in a hurry/didn’t understand the question?
“One in four voters now believe that concerns over climate change are not as real as scientists have said”
Thing is, the scientists are not saying it.
The crooks, grifters and nasties are saying it. And the troubled young Swedish lady, who is currently swanning around in her boat on the way to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.
Official figures prove that Net Zero is a charade. The latest Statistical Review of World Energy gives the world’s dependency on indispensable fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal) for its primary energy supplies as a showstopping 86.6%, still barely off the Net Zero start line. That dependency ratio and the extreme divergence between the world and UK trendlines of annual CO2 emissions prove conclusively that UK Net Zero is utterly pointless.
For details, see my post: https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/the-charade-of-net-zero-2/.
I totally agree, but I would argue that UK Net Zero does have one useful purpose, in that it provides a stark demonstration to the rest of the world of what a bad idea it is to chase after net zero. I’m just sorry I’m one of the guinea pigs.
Look at Russia, it’s awash with oil and gas. Look at where they might bring this commodity to market through ports not frozen most of the year. Think of the power or Russia taking part in the global economy and the shift of power it’ll bring when that wealth creates a powerful consumer economy there.
This should tell you all you need to know about both the climate swindle and the war in Ukraine.
More fictional, unprovable bullshit pumped out of a computer and spouted as fact. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/10/link-oil-giants-heatwaves-research-legal-liability?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
And yet Smarmer, when asked in parliament yesterday, said he will ban fracking permanently.
This government don’t care what people think or want, they only care about their perverse ideology.