"Can the secretary of state assure the house that his failure to protect flood defence expenditure has nothing to do with his personal scepticism about climate science?
She said: "Can the secretary of state reassure the house that his failure to protect flood defence expenditure over other potential cuts has nothing to do with his own personal scepticism about climate science?" Eagle also questioned the efficacy of visits such as David Cameron's to Yalding in Kent on 27 December, where flooded householders told him they felt abandoned.
At one point, in spite of some personal scepticism, he was advising the Physics Department on whether it was possible for practitioners like Uri Geller to generate electromagnetic potentials which made his apparent feats possible and whether these could be measured, and was also investigating the possible mechanisms of acupuncture.
The figures will fuel fears that the Environment Secretary's personal climate-change scepticism could be exposing the UK to a higher risk of flooding and other global warming consequences.
"I seem to remember 'academics' once upon a time stating that the world was flat and the Sun orbitted the Earth," scoffed Ted, who has presumably been keeping his personal brand of scepticism alive since the middle ages.
Determinants that considerably influence WTP are personal norm, climate change scepticism, agreement with the German Renewable Energy Law and individualistic cognition.
Emphasis is placed upon the meanings, forms, relevance and impact of political secularism, philosophical scepticism, and personal and public secularity.
The eminent contributors to this volume cover a broad range of topics: meaning, induction, scepticism, belief, personal identity, causation, freedom, miracles, probability, and religious belief.
Scepticism about his personal financial dealings, the judgment with which he chooses associates, and a social conservatism which raises questions about his commitment to women's rights and gay rights, and to the abolition of capital punishment, are widespread.
As this judgment of legitimacy is itself a product of our personal politics, it is perhaps no surprise that scepticism is such a slippery concept to get to grips with.
The accrual of considerable wealth to the Findhorn Community, as Californians flocked there in search of spiritual peace, inevitably led to heightened scepticism among non-believers, particularly as the personal lives of the principal players were far from austere.
