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http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/growing-numbers-american-voters-think-global-warming-happening-many-say-issue-will-important-vote-fall-elections/[font size=5]Growing Numbers of American Voters Think Global Warming is Happening. Many Say the Issue Will be Important to their Vote in the Fall Elections[/font]
By Bessie Schwarz
For Immediate Release Contact: Bessie Schwarz, 973-493-5647, bessie.schwarz@yale.edu
[font size=4]GROWING NUMBER OF AMERICAN VOTERS THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING. MANY SAY THE ISSUE WILL BE IMPORTANT TO THEIR VOTE IN THE FALL ELECTIONS
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[font size=3]April 26, 2016 (New Haven, CT) A new national survey conducted in March finds that a growing number of voters think global warming is happening (73%, up 7 points since Spring 2014).
Nearly all liberal Democrats (95%) think global warming is happening, as do about three in four moderate/conservative Democrats (80%), Independents (74%, up 15 points since Spring 2014) and liberal/moderate Republicans (71%, up 10 points).
By contrast, only about half of conservative Republicans (47%) think global warming is happening. However, there has been a large increase in the number of conservative Republicans who think global warming is happening. In fact, conservative Republicans have experienced the largest shift of any groupan increase of 19 percentage points over the past two years.
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pscot
(21,024 posts)Gman
(24,780 posts)Their fall back position argument hasn't changed. It's still that it's not anthropomorphic. Probably at least 75% of the 47% of conservatives think it's not anthropomorphic.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)This appears not to be the case.
http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Politics-and-Global-Warming-Spring-2016.pdf
Naturally, we would like their attitudes to change faster, but they are changing.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)places that have been affected, like much of the middle east.
Duckfan
(1,268 posts)Then the question is: will they still support their "fracking candidate?" I mean you don't suppose they think it's no big deal do you?
hatrack
(59,592 posts)OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)I remember learning about the Greenhouse Effect in the 1970s.[center]
[/center]However, yes, they seem to be slowly coming around.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601354/republican-attitudes-on-climate-change-thaw/
[font size=4]Though politicians are increasingly willing to admit the planet is warming, theyre still reluctant to fund clean energy R&D.[/font]
by Richard Martin April 29, 2016
[font size=3]Subtly but steadily, Republican attitudes on climate change have been changing. That evolution was confirmed this week by a Yale University/George Mason University poll that found that 56 percent of Republicans nationwide believe that the climate is warming (although many still dispute the idea that human activity is the cause). Five years ago that figure was less than 40 percent.
These Republican voters disagree with the partys likely presidential nominee, Donald Trump, who has dismissed the threat of climate change. But theres evidence that even Republican politicians on Capitol Hill are becoming less intransigent on the issue: The Energy Policy Modernization Act, which contains a number of landmark provisions to reduce energy consumption and promote renewable energy, passed the Senate with bipartisan support earlier this month (see The Five Dumbest Things in the U.S. Energy Bill). And a new House group, the Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, began meeting this month to seek consensus on energy and climate issues.
This new willingness to recognize reality stems partly from the fact that a strong majority of American voters view climate change deniers as flat-earthers. As Keith Gaby of the Environmental Defense Fund points out, its also driven by the fact that many clean energy jobs are located in Republican congressional districts. But that doesnt mean that Republicans are suddenly eager to take action on clean energy technologies.
The 2017 energy and water appropriations act, currently held up in Congress, would add more than $335 million to the Department of Energys budgetbut most of that is directed at defense-related spending. The bill would cut around $800 million from the agencys non-defense-related spending.
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NickB79
(19,273 posts)"Hey, I think we should consider applying the brakes shortly, or this could end badly for us!"