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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: TideGlider who wrote (76286)12/13/2009 4:01:46 PM
From: FJB1 Recommendation  Respond to of 224744
 
43% Favor Urgent Action Against Global Warming, 43% Say Not So Fast

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Americans remain evenly divided over how urgent it is to deal with global warming.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 43% say we must take immediate action to stop it. But another 43% say we should wait a few years to see if global warming is real before making major changes. Fourteen percent (14%) aren’t sure which course to follow.

These findings are virtually unchanged from late January despite calls from President Obama, the secretary general of the United Nations and other world leaders for immediate action. Many of those leaders are now meeting in Copenhagen at a UN summit with the intention of concluding an international treaty aimed at limiting the human activity they blame for causing global warming.

Just 30% of adults say the world is headed toward an irreversible catastrophe if the members of the United Nations fail to deal with global warming. Nearly half (48%) of Americans don’t believe the fate of the world hangs on UN action. Twenty-two percent (22%) are undecided...

rasmussenreports.com