It’s easy to get caught up in the infectious enthusiasm of a good march, but now the energy from yesterdays’ London climate march has subsided, now might be a good time to examine their effectiveness as a measure of public opinion.

One of the difficulties with governing on the scale of the E.U. is how to accurately assess public opinion. In light of these concerns, the E.U. has been remarkably proactive with pan-Europe opinion polls. In the next few posts I’ll try to give a digest of the recent results to see how public opinion in [...]

It’s not often that business executives are the focus of opinion polls, but a survey this year by Yougov highlights some truly surprising results. Yes, the sample size is small but the respondents are powerful. 200 business executives from FTSE 300 companies were polled on their attitudes to climate change in a business context, and [...]

Voters think that Climate Change is a top priority, but it won’t affect who they vote for. Part one of this post showed how, while voters were heavily concerned about climate change, it was not a voting issue in national elections. This post will attempt to analyse some possible reasons for this paradox. Important but [...]

Voters think that Climate Change is a top priority, but it won’t affect who they vote for. Issue Percentage Agree Poll Concerned or Very Concerned 77 % Ipsos MORI 2008(a) Should be top Priority of Government 28 % ICM research 2006 Top voting issue* ave. 7.8 % Ipsos MORI Aug 2007- Aug 2008 * Spontaneous [...]