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Americans consider global warming an urgent threat, according to poll
Posted on Monday, October 01, 2007 @ 21:19:30 UTC by vlad
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A growing number of Americans consider global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action, and 40% say that a presidential candidate’s position on the issue will strongly influence how they vote, according to a national survey conducted by Yale University, Gallup and the ClearVision Institute.
“One of the most surprising findings was the growing sense of urgency,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change and the study’s principal investigator. “Nearly half of Americans now believe that global warming is either already having dangerous impacts on people around the world or will in the next 10 years—a 20-percentage-point increase since 2004. These results indicate a sea change in public opinion.”
The survey’s findings include:
-- Sixty-two percent of respondents believe that life on earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming.
-- Sixty-eight percent of Americans support a new international treaty requiring the United States to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the year 2050. Yet, Leiserowitz notes, the United States has yet to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty that would require the United States to cut its emissions 7 percent by the year 2012.
-- A surprising 40 percent of respondents say a presidential candidate’s position on global warming will be either extremely important (16 percent) or very important (24 percent) when casting their ballots. “With the presidential primaries and general election near,” Leiserowitz said, “candidates should recognize that global warming has become an important issue for the electorate.”
-- Eight-five percent of those polled support requiring automakers to increase the fuel efficiency of cars, trucks and SUVs to 35 miles per gallon, even if it meant a new car would cost up to $500 more; and 82 percent support requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it cost the average household an extra $100 a year.
-- Majorities of Americans, however, continue to oppose carbon taxes as a way to address global warming — either in the form of gasoline (67 percent against) or electricity taxes (71 percent against).
-- Finally, 50 percent of respondents say they are personally worried —15 percent say a “great deal”— about global warming. “Many Americans, however, believe that global warming is a very serious threat to other species, people and places far away,” said Leiserowitz, “but not so serious of a threat to themselves, their own families or local communities. Nonetheless, they do strongly support a number of national and international policies to address this problem.”
Source: Yale University
Via: http://www.physorg.com/news110454630.html
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SURVEY: CHINESE ENVIRONMENTALLY CONCERNED, October 01 A new survey shows nearly seven of 10 Chinese consumers prefer to buy products and services from environmentally reputable companies.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news110463468.html
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Americans are retarded (Score: 1)
by Kadamose on Monday, October 01, 2007 @ 23:18:43 UTC
(User Info | Send a Message) | Global Warming, which has been cleverly renamed as Climate Change by worthless politicians, is a NATURAL cycle which occurs every 11,000-13,000 years. The earth is not the only thing heating up, either - the entire solar system is. Global Warming can be attributed to the changes in the sun, as well as the fact that our small part of the galaxy is just barely beginning to merge [www.viewzone.com] with the Milky Way galaxy.
Man-made global warming is a scam, and pretty soon we are all going to see more regulations and a carbon tax because of a braindead populace who would rather listen to the constant propoganda on television, rather than listen to actual scientific facts.
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DIMINISHED ICE LEADS TO NORTHWEST PASSAGE OPENING (Score: 1)
by vlad on Monday, October 01, 2007 @ 22:18:33 UTC
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.zpenergy.com | ARCTIC SEA ICE SHATTERS ALL PREVIOUS RECORD LOWS: DIMINISHED ICE LEADS TO NORTHWEST PASSAGE OPENING, October 01 Arctic sea ice during the 2007 melt season plummeted to the lowest levels since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news110481010.html [www.physorg.com]
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