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

To: jmhollen who wrote (85875)	6/14/2010 2:08:22 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 224750

Polls: Americans still worried about global warming Two separate polls out this week, from Stanford and Yale Universities, show that Americans are still concerned about global warming and the effects of carbon dioxide on the world's climate. The polls were released as the U.S. Senate heads toward a vote today on whether the Obama administration should be allowed to go ahead with regulations curtailing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major polluters. The measure, sponsored by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski from oil-rich Alaska, would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from carrying out rules to regulate carbon and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. According to the survey by Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, three out of four Americans believe that the Earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it. "Several national surveys released during the last eight months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and threatening to people," Stanford professor Jon Krosnick said. "But our new survey shows just the opposite." "Growing public skepticism has, in recent months, been attributed to news reports about e-mail messages hacked from the computer system at the University of East Anglia in Britain – characterized as showing climate scientists colluding to silence unconvinced colleagues – and by the discoveries of alleged flaws in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPPC]," Krosnick said. "Our survey discredited this claim in multiple ways." For example, only 9% of respondents said they knew about the East Anglia e-mail messages and believed they indicate that climate scientists should not be trusted, and only 13% said the same about the controversial IPPC reports. The Yale survey (conducted along with George Mason University), found that public concern about global warming is once again on the rise, despite the winter's Climategate scandal. Since January, the Yale/GMU survey reported that public belief that global warming is happening rose four points, to 61%, while belief that it is caused mostly by human activities rose three points, to 50%. The number of Americans who worry about global warming rose three points, to 53 percent. And the number of Americans who said that the issue is personally important to them rose five points, to 63%. The poll also found that 77% support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. content.usatoday.com