How did this happen?

Just fifteen per cent of people in Britain worry about climate change and how the world responds to the problem, the lowest figure for any of the 12 countries surveyed. The figure is down from 26 per cent last year. In the US 18 per cent of people said global warming was one of their biggest concerns followed by 22 per cent in Australia.

We are superior to Australia, which in most years is tough. But Britain is more sensible than us? Their economy must really suck. Fighting fictional problems with costly ineffectualism is, after all, something of a luxury good.

However, people still believe that action should be taken.

Which just goes to show that the "should something be done" question is of dubious polling value and should always be disregarded. People are always going to say "yeah, sure, why not" to that question. Meaningless. 15% say it's a problem. A majority think something should be done. Worthless poll question, in all circumstances.

Still, it makes one proud to be in the Anglosphere clique. There'll always be an England, and England shall be free.

The reason for that is most Britons have something more immediate to worry about all of which emanates from Poodle Blair tying a line firmly to the Titanic (that's you) instead of of closer integration with the EU and the EURO.

But yes Climate change is something we should all be worrying about , especially falling oxygen levels.

See, you shouldn't affix that plastic bag over your head with a rubber band. This is what got David Carradine into trouble.

The more difficult the economic times the less emotionalism people invest in NON bread and butter issues. So things are economically worse in Great Britain than in the United States and, apparently, far, FAR, worse inside the United States than inside Australia.

Well spotted!

the whole David Carradine auto-asphyxiation for sex purposes thing but I did just flash on ancient Master Po [or whatever the name was in the television show] tottering up to the closet and extending an age ravaged hand with a pebble resting in the center.

"When you can snatch this pebble from my hand Grassho--" A lengthy pause followed by, "Shit! Not a rubber band! Didn't you learn anything from us? You always auto-asphyxiate using a slip bow knot you idiot!"

Just fifteen per cent of people in Britain worry about climate change and how the world responds to the problem

I worry about the second half of the question, not the first. Still, I doubt they've the will to do anything drastic. And I'm backing it up with a quarter, if you can snatch it from my hand.

I wouldn't say things are worse in the UK than in the USA, if the US$ loses its position as the world's reserve currency, which it is daily, you are truly screwed., you will have to start working for your crust, question is, do you know how to?

Personally I changed all my spare dough to Euros 2 years ago, you should do the same.

Short term, anyway.

brits are more educated. just ask one and he'll tell you. thats why fewer of them are conned by al gore. besides, if chris christie is too fat to be new jerseys governor, doesn't that automatically call into question al gore and his heated swimming pool?

my theory on why aussies are more worried about global warming - they drink more beer. when you're drunk you get depressed. did you ever see a can of fosters? its like a quart, i think. americans write songs about girlfriends leaving when they get drunk and sing the blues. aussies write songs about the weather?

It all makes sense to me. What was it that the Aussies ruled last month in regards to an annual booze festival? Something about how many quarts or liters of booze per person an individual was allowed to consume [an unGodly amount] and still be allowed to drive himself and his family home?

I like 'em as a people but they do put the ding in bats.

Ya pansy. I'm torn between whether Australia or India is the new Anglosphere leader. Obama has ensured that it ain't gonna be us.

I figure about the time that most people realize that climate change is essentially just one big pseudo scientific hoax for the collection of bogus research grants [lots of money for doing nothing] a big freaking meteor will smack into the planet and make all this stuff moot via a good ol' fashioned climate change festival sponsored by mother nature herself . . . the bitch!

Does this "Britain" include Scotland and Wales? i'm so disappointed in the English people, they seem to have lost their passion for doing the right thing. England has been slowly going down the tubes since they started drinking Tory light Blair's Orange Squash ten years ago. Any country who supported Bush's fawning poodle, Blair, (Blair is to Bush as Mussolini was to Hitler) and their murderous invasion of Iraq deserves to be on the bottom of the rung of nations. The only thing they have going for them is that London is one of the financial centers of the world and is still, quite beautiful in many ways. The cost of living has become prohibitively expensive; for example, a simple egg salad sandwich from Marks and Spencer costs about three dollars now. They deserve to be crushed by a floating iceberg.

Urquhart:

Still, it makes one proud to be in the Anglosphere clique. There'll always be an England, and England shall be free.

Well, til muslims become the majority, at anyrate.

Well, exactly. I'll never forgive the emotional damage inflicted on me by pricey egg salad. Limey bastards!

Clearly, this is due to Labour not being Laboury enough. Because when they're really Laboury to the extent that they have to go cap in hand to the IMF, Baroness Thatcher has to come in and bail them out with punitive egg salad taxes.

Labour came in third in the EU elections. Mike blames this on their support for the Iraq War. Even though the election was last year.

They can't actually be crushed by a floating iceberg. Nobody can. Because it's, y'know, floating. And they are an island. A jewel set in a silver sea. This little realm, this earth, this England. (hum along!)