A joint poll conducted by the Washington Post, ABC News, and Stanford University is one of those good news/bad news polls. The good news is that global warming has become the top environmental concern among americans. The bad news is that people don't have any idea what to do about it.
First, the good news. One third of americans rated global warming as their top environmental concern -- double what it was last year and more than any other concern. That's one hell of an increase. Seven in ten think the federal government should do more to curb warming, with half of all respondents saying that the government should do 'much more.'
I thought this was fun:
Washinngton Post:
By a 40-point margin, the public trusts congressional Democrats more than it trusts President Bush to handle global warming. More than nine in 10 Democrats in the poll said they trusted their party's leaders over Bush on the issue, as did 54 percent of independents and one in five Republicans.
In other words, a majority of everyone but Republicans think that dems own the issue. And, obviously, not all Republicans are flatearthers. WaPo cites one respondent who describes himself as 'a typical Republican banker who doesn't have a lot of faith in the administration where this issue is concerned.' The man, Tom Sheppard of Dalton, PA 'said he became concerned about climate change after seeing retreating glaciers in Alaska last year and reading about melting of the Greenland ice sheet.'
In other words, he bothered to pay attention and see what was happening around him...
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