Stanford University communications researcher Dr. Jon Krosnick has released an analysis of his latest public opinion survey on American's perceptions of global warming. Dr. Krosnick, a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute, presented his research findings on March 12 at a climate briefing hosted by the American Meteorological Society. The survey was funded by Stanford and the Associated Press (AP). Visit http://woods.stanford.edu/research/majority-believe-global-warming.html for more information and a YouTube video with Dr. Krosnick.

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Yesterday, 13 U.S. Senators, including Al Franken from Minnesota, signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid, urging him to ensure that legislation does not weaken the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to protect human health by regulating coal-fired power plants and other global warming polluters.

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I recommend that you take 10 minutes to watch this powerful new video, in which Peter Sinclair lays out the basic evidence - from many fields of research - that global warming is occurring and is primarily caused by human choices to burn coal, oil, and natural gas.

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Efforts are afoot in Washington, DC - particularly in the U.S. Senate - that would dramatically impair national work under the Clean Air Act to reduce global warming pollution from cars and trucks and industry. Here's what's at stake: on April 2, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court found that greenhouse gases are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act.  In December 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued findings that the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming constitute a danger to public health and welfare here in the United States. Some of those human health impacts include mortality from more frequent and intense heat waves and degraded air quality that negatively impacts people with respiratory diseases and asthma. The worst of the health impacts are likely to be felt by the very young and older Americans - children and senior citizens - particularly in urban areas and among low income populations. The EPA findings are a crucial step in work to require reductions in global warming pollution.

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Despite recent rebuttals to the contrary, global warming is a real threat to Americans. Even the U.S. military agrees. In the new video "Climate Patriots: A Military Perspective on Energy, Climate Change and American National Security," recently released by the PEW Project, leaders of the U.S. Armed Forces weigh in on their experiences gearing up for and preventing climate change. The overall gist: climate change will increase terrorism, will require more military spending, and will create a need for a greater U.S. military presence abroad. So we need to be taking action now.

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Employed or not, jobs are on all of our minds these days. The word pops up everywhere, especially in conversations about clean energy and climate policy. But what would a climate policy actually do for American jobs? A recent update by Economics for Equity and the Environment (E3) might shed some light on the subject. The Climate Policy and Jobs: An Update on What Economists Know report highlights two main findings based on the knowledge of five leading economists. The bottom line: climate policy keeps and creates jobs.

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President Obama has voiced that "climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time." In his State of the Union, he expressed the importance of passing a comprehensive clean energy bill in order to meet this challenge and help recover the American economy. In the recently released 2010 Economic Report of the President, it was reported that "a clean energy transformation is essential."

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Americans support clean energy development and they want action to reduce global warming pollution. The latest nationwide poll demonstrating majority support for these policies was conducted by pollsters from the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communications.

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One of our nation's most valuable environmental laws is under attack by members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. Their target: the Clean Air Act. In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined, based on an in-depth scientific evidence, that global warming pollutants endanger human health and welfare, including right here in the United States. Some of our federal elected officials are working to overturn that scientific finding and prevent policy that should help us protect public health into a toothless law on the crucial issue of lowering global warming pollution.

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Today at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota, I met a man who had been a student in a higher-learning situation for the past 7 years, but had never heard how global warming would directly affect Minnesotans. I was just as surprised as he was.

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