Given this climate of opinion, an aggressive communications campaign can even highlight specific products.

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Hugh Cunningham, professor of social history at the University of Kent, argues that while Dickens "helped create a climate of opinion", he did not articulate a "coherent doctrine" of how society should be reformed - and that the author was at times as much in danger of being seen as a conservative as a radical.

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Experience suggests that the dissidents are unlikely to be defeated solely by a strengthened security apparatus, without a concomitant change in the climate of public opinion.

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Called Climategate Revisited, the programme examined the impact of the ensuing controversy about the conduct of climate science on public opinion, media reporting and the scientific community.

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After all, it isn't the police force's job to tackle the tsunami of doubt that "ClimateGate" spewed into the court of public opinion on climate change.

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Dr Sherwood Rowland, who won a Nobel Prize for his studies of atmospheric ozone, said the consensus of scientific opinion on climate change was being ignored.

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Lim admits that the recent loss of both the Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter may have affected favourable public opinion, which is what the project needs most if the dream of seeing astronauts on the Red Planet is ever to be realised.

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The result is Explaining Cameron's Coalition, co-authored with polling consultant Mark Gill, which dissects both the election campaign and the political climate in which it took place, with the aid of detailed opinion polling.

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Furthermore, the fact that you insist that climate scientists are lying is ironic given that you have a track record of posting misinformation in your weekly opinion pieces at Forbes.

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