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LONDON: A poll for BBC News has suggested that the number of British people who are skeptical about climate change is rising.
According to BBC News, the findings are based on interviews carried out on 3 and 4 February.
The Populus poll of 1,001 adults found that 25% did not think global warming was happening, a rise of 8% since a similar poll was conducted in November.
The percentage of respondents who said climate change was a reality had fallen from 83% in November to 75% this month.
Only 26% of those asked believed climate change was happening and "now established as largely man-made".
Of the 75% of respondents who agreed that climate change was happening, one-in-three people felt that the potential consequences of living in a warming world had been exaggerated, up from one-in-five people in November.
The number of people who felt the risks of climate change had been understated dropped from 38% in November to 25% in the latest poll.
In November 2009, a similar poll by Populus showed that 41% agreed that climate change was happening and it was largely the result of human activities.
"It is very unusual indeed to see such a dramatic shift in opinion in such a short period," Populus managing director Michael Simmonds told BBC News.
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