Climate change not our fault , says survey

Climate change - th'ass gotta all be our fault, ennit..? Maybe not, according to a survey into how many of us think that's actually true. A poll for politicalbetting.com revealed less than half of us think humanity is responsible for global warming.

"The finding that just 47% of the sample agreed that global warming was a fact caused by the actions of humanity is significant and quite worrying for political leaders of all parties," it says.

"For if fewer than one in two believe how can key policies win pubic support."

You might think this is yet another good old poke in the eye for the Greens. It comes hot on the heels of the so-called Climategate row over whether leading climate change scientists at the UEA rigged data to bolster the case for man-made global warming.

Tonight it's going, with the UN stepping in to investigate. Across the pond, there's a similar scandal breaking out in America.

But it goes a bit deeper than who you think is to blame for the polar ice caps melting. Government at all levels now routinely uses climate change as an excuse to tax us, whether it's fuel duty or local councils trying to make us recycle more.

Yet if the poll's right, less than half of us believe the basic argument that underpins it all.

Perhaps this says as much about politics, as it does about global warming. In a 21st Century Democracy, we're all paying more tax for something less than half of us believe in, because someone, somewhere thinks they know better.