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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Mar 29, 2007 12:40pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, March 29, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) working overtime to convince America that the GOP is the vanguard of the Flat Earth Society, it is worth recognizing that Republican voters are far ahead of their elected officials, who are in danger of losing support as a result of embracing a Luddite position on global warming.
In December — long before Al Gore’s Oscar and the latest consensus scientific report — we surveyed 400 New Hampshire Republican primary voters for Clear the Air and Clean Air-Cool Planet and found them surprisingly enlightened, despite their conservative orientation. Unlike their leaders, Republican voters are concerned about the dangers posed by global warming and endorse immediate action to curb the carbon pollution that causes it.
Nearly eight in 10 Republican primary voters in New Hampshire believe global warming is a reality that is either happening now or will happen in the future. A solid 56 percent majority see global warming already occurring, while an additional 23 percent believe it will happen in the future. Just 14 percent think global warming will not happen.
A 70 percent supermajority of Republican primary voters believe global warming constitutes a serious threat today, with just 28 percent coming anywhere close to Barton and Inhofe and labeling the threat either “not too serious” or “not serious at all.”
Support for U.S. action to reduce the carbon emissions that cause global warming is remarkably broad and deep among New Hampshire’s Republican primary voters. Seventy-five percent say they favor such action; 56 percent “strongly” favor U.S. action. Just 15 percent oppose action to reduce global warming emissions. |
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