Sentences with phrase «increasing scepticism»

India too is showing increasing scepticism towards these currencies.

Interest in carbon credits has slumped in the US: the Chicago Climate Exchange ceased issuing trading reports this April and is suspending trade at the end of this year, probably caused by the swing to the Republicans against a background of increasing scepticism in the US.

Given the arrogance I have seen over the years coming from Universities, and which I am afraid I see regularly on this blog only tends to confirm the mild, but increasing scepticism I have developed towards Climate Change — aka global warming.

A public debate over the adjustments is long over due and to the extent it reaches Joe Public will increase scepticism.

Not exact matches

With suitable scepticism over the use of cannabis falling we must also look at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) figures for cannabis farms which has seen a 15 % increase in domestic farms with 3,032 in 2008 compared to 7,865 in 2011.

Those numbers were treated with deep scepticism by some members, one of whom insisted Mr Johnson would have to either cut bus services or increase fares to pay for the new buses.

For instance, in February, Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee called for submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.»

Given the increasing realisation that climate mitigation efforts are creating an economic crisis, and increasing popular scepticism about the alarmist scenario, this is a timely publication, and a key resource for all of us who are arguing for common sense.

These two tendencies together explain why scepticism of climate change may be increasing.

One possibility is that having failed to win the argument (it's generally agreed that scepticism has increased over the last decade or so) they need to create an excuse, a scapegoat, an imaginary villain, rather than face up to their own failings.