'Brexiters' doubt climate change, distrust climate scientists, have sympathy for creationism, oppose windfarms and support fracking

Many prominent leave campaigners are openly
opposed to action on climate
change or have cast doubt on man’s role in it.

British people backing a leave vote in the EU referendum are almost twice as likely to believe that climate change does not have a human cause, according to a new poll.

Brexiters are more likely to think the media exaggerates how settled climate science is; distrust scientists; have sympathy with creationism; oppose onshore windfarms and support fracking.

The findings come in a ComRes poll of 1,618 people evenly split between those intending to vote out and in.

Many prominent leave campaigners are either openly opposed to action on climate change or have cast doubt on man’s role in it, including former chancellor Nigel Lawson, former environment secretary Owen Paterson and columnist Matthew Ridley.

Boris Johnson once penned a column suggesting snow on his windowsill means we should consider believing climate sceptics over governments and leading scientists across the world, but has not openly denied manmade climate change.

Read The Guardian story - “Brexit voters almost twice as likely to disbelieve in manmade climate change.”

(About the time Britain was deciding to leave the European Union a video clip illustrating the importance and value of standing as one (teamwork) was spinning through the Facebook world. It demonstrated that if even the smallest of things worked together, they could “see-off” larger and seemingly overwhelming threats.

Climate change is a threat bigger than any one country and to have any chance of addressing it, the world community must stand and work together.

The decision taken today by British people contradicts good sense and marks the beginning of a divide that could well be a bifurcation from which the world may never recover – Robert McLean.)