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Poll: Americans See a Climate Problem
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Contributor | ArmyDem |
Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 26, 2006 01:29pm |
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Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
News Date | Sunday, March 26, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | In a new TIME survey, most people see global warming worsening — and want action
Posted Sunday, Mar. 26, 2006
A large majority of Americans — 85% — say global warming is probably happening, according to a new TIME magazine/ABC News/Stanford University poll. An even larger percentage (88%) think global warming threatens future generations. More than half (60%) say it threatens them a great deal; 38% feel that global warming is already a serious problem, and 47% feel that it will be in the future.
Just over half of Americans (52%) say weather patterns in the county where they live have grown more unstable in the last three years and half (50%) feel that average temperatures have risen in their county. A large majority (70%) think weather patterns globally have become more unstable in the last three years and 56% feel average temperatures around the world have risen.
Almost half (49%) say the issue of global warming is "extremely important" or "very important" to them personally, up from 31% in 1998. When asked about the causes of rise in the world’s temperatures, 31% feel it is caused by the things people do, 19% feel it is due mostly to natural causes, and 49% feel it is a combination of the two. Almost seven-in-ten (68%) Americans think the government should do more to address global warming, according to the poll; however, 64% think scientists disagree with one another about global warming. |
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