Most of Public and Nearly Half in G.O.P. Back Climate Action

WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the American public, including nearly half of Republicans, support government action to curbglobal warming, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times,Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future.

In a finding that could have implications for the 2016 presidential campaign, the poll also found that two-thirds of Americans say they are more likely to vote for political candidates who campaign on fighting climate change. They are less likely to vote for candidates who question or deny the science of human-caused global warming.

Among Republicans, 48 percent said they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports fighting climate change, a result that Jon A. Krosnick, a professor of political science at Stanford University and an author of the survey, called "the most powerful finding" in the poll. Many Republican candidates either question the science of climate change or do not publicly address the issue.

The poll found that 83 percent of Americans, including 61 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of independents, say that if nothing is done to reduce emissions, global warming will be a very or somewhat serious problem in the future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/u...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Worthless push poles.

 

Jason Becker, a self-identified independent and stay-at-home father in Ocoee, Fla., said that although climate change was not his top concern, a candidate who questioned global warming would seem out of touch.

“I don’t think it’s the number one hot issue in the world,” Mr. Becker said. “There are some other things that should take precedent, like the ISIS issue,” he said, referring to the Islamic State militants.

But, he said of climate change, “If someone feels it’s a hoax they are denying the evidence out there. Many arguments can be made on both sides of the fence. But to just ignore it completely indicates a close-minded individual, and I don’t want a close-minded individual in a seat of political power.”

Political analysts say the problem for many Republicans is how to carve out a position on climate change that does not turn off voters like Mr. Becker, but that also does not alienate powerful conservative campaign donors. In particular, advocacy groups funded by the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch have vowed to ensure that Republican candidates who advocate for climate change action will lose in primary elections.

As a result, many Republicans have begun responding to questions about climate change by saying, "I’m not a scientist," or some variant, as a way to avoid taking a definite position.

 

Very amusing. A bunch of climate change alarmists create a study and magically the results show that 83% of Americans support "climate change".

Yet these are the same Alarmists regularly screaming all the time that barely 50% of Americans support climate change because the majority of the mainstream population has not been enlightened like "97%" of the brilliant scientists.

Which is it?

 

Gallup polling concurs.

It's a conspiwacy!

 

IOW, bawk! bawk! bawwwwk!

 

ok, skip climate change, it's real, all cool people accept it. Now ask any man on the street, "What do you think we should do about climate change?" Until some democrat or Hollywood actor rides a bike to the next climate change party, nobody will take any of it seriously. The last person to actually do anything about climate change was Jimmy Carter when he turned down the heat in the Whitehouse, and back then the earth was actually cooling and on the verge of a new Ice Age. (He was very forward thinking.)

 

I am 100% in support of climate change action. I think everybody else needs to make changes to prevent climate change, while I go on living my life as I see fit. Sacrifices are great when other people are forced to make them.

 

If you like your health care, you can keep your health care.---Who was it that packaged up and put together that monsterous lie? -------Scientists

That they can still bandy about this notion that scientists don't lie is incredible. You literally have to be a complete moron at this point to think that scientists don't lie.

 

now now now, Economics is not a science. Most scientists consider economists to be in the same crowd as psychologists. In otherwords, "A little screwy" but not real scientists who live and work in a world of real laws.