Posted by The Editors
on November 2, 2009, 5:09 pm
Hello davids
Thought you would be the gentlemen to ask, how many mainstream media
reviews have you found for James Hoggan Climate Cover-Up?
Regards Patrick
Hi Patrick
This looks like the only mention (below) - he appears to have had two sentences
in the entire UK press.
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The Guardian (London) - Final Edition
October 23, 2009 Friday
International: Fewer Americans believe global warming is caused by people
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
The percentage of Americans who believe global warming is happening, has
plummeted from 77% to 57% in two years, a survey published yesterday shows.
Only 57% of Americans believe there is solid scientific evidence showing the
Earth's atmosphere is getting hotter, according to the poll of 1,500 people by
the Pew Research Centre in Washington.
In January 2007, 77% said there was solid evidence that the earth's temperatures
were increasing. The numbers believing that human activity is causing global
warming also fell, to just 36%.
Public uncertainty over the evidence for global warming comes as the Senate
prepares to begin debate next week on climate change laws. On Wednesday, 18
scientific groups wrote to Congress to reaffirm the consensus on global warming.
Michael Dimock, associate director of the Pew centre, said the economic crisis
and struggles over health care reform had squeezed out the environment and
climate change as issues of concern. "The public is just not as focused on
global warming . . . as they have been in the past."
But James Hoggan, the author of Climate Cover-Up, blamed a "sophisticated"
lobbying campaign. "I would say a big part of this problem is this campaign to
mislead Americans about climate science."
The decline in belief was sharpest among Republicans and independent voters. And
people living in the midwest and Rocky Mountain states were less inclined to see
climate change as a serious problem. Yet half of Americans polled favoured
carbon limits and firms paying for emissions - the basics of the cap and trade
bill now before the Senate.
36%
Percentage, in a poll of people in the US, who said they believed that human
actions were causing global warming
Second email to Patrick:
Goldenberg also gave Coggan a mention in passing in a second article on October 24: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/25/barack-obama-climate-change-copenhagen
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