The bitter winter just gone has done little to impact on the British people's opinions and attitudes towards global warming, according to a poll of over 1800 people. 

Researchers at Cardiff University conducted a poll that only showed a small drop in those who accepted climate change as a major issue. The major drops predicted after the record-breaking low temperatures and the failure of the Copenhagen summit have not materialised as expected. 

The survey showed that 71 per cent of people in Britain are still concerned about climate change and 78 per cent think that the climate is changing, down significantly from 91 per cent in a similar survey conducted in 2005. The poll surveyed 1822 people across the United Kingdom between January and March this year following the leaked emails between a number of high profile scientists at East Anglia University which claimed to show a conspiracy between climate change researchers. 

Many experts believed that this along with the 'big freeze and breakdown of the Copenhagen summit would be a major setback for to the efforts to tackle global warming but the the poll showed different. The final results showed 71 per cent of people were fairly or very concerned about climate change, 40 per cent said that they believed climate change to be greatly exaggerated while 42 per cent disagreed with this. The survey also showed that 20 per cent believed there was a lot of disagreement between scientists on the causes of global warming. 70 per cent of people also thought it was their responsibility to act and 68 per cent said they would be in favour of spending taxpayers money on methods to tackle climate change.

Author:  Thomas Davies

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