| Re: James Hoggan - Climate Cover-Up
Posted by jo abbess   on November 2, 2009, 7:36 pm, in reply to "James Hoggan - Climate Cover-Up"
And it's "Hoggan" not "Coggan"... --Previous Message-- : : 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. : : Best : : Eds : : : 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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