The 23rd wave of the Energy and Climate Change Public Attitudes Tracker (PAT), published last week, showed that 21% of respondents thought that climate change was within the top three challenges facing Britain today, and 13% thought that energy supply was. However, a high proportion of UK society does not have a full understanding of alternative energy sources, with 86% claiming to know little or nothing about nuclear energy, whilst 65% know little or are unaware of what shale gas extraction entails. The PAT survey, which was conducted at the end of September 2017, showed that 82% of the population either support or strongly support the use of renewable energy for providing electricity, fuel and heat, whilst 4% opposed it.
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