Topic: global warming news - Half of Kiwis doubt global warming: poll - New Zealand Herald

But he and the director of Auckland University's School of Environment, Glenn McGregor, said there was a problem communicating climate science to the public - and scientists and the media were equally to blame. An online survey of the Herald Readers' Panel was conducted by the Nielsen Company between December 10 and December 17, as world leaders prepared to meet at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Thirty-eight per cent said global warming was a serious problem that needed action now, 13 per cent said it was the world's biggest challenge, and 2 per cent did not know. The findings are at odds with a telephone survey of 500 people a few weeks earlier paid for by the Greenhouse Policy Coalition and carried out by UMR research the week after damaging emails from an international group of climate scientists were taken from the University of East Anglia's climate research unit and leaked on to the internet. In March, three quarters of respondents to a ShapeNZ online poll of 2851 people said climate change needed to be dealt with now or urgently and 64 per cent agreed the time had passed for doubting whether it was happening.

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