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.
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.
Amid the generally abysmal reporting of public opinion on climate policy, the results of a December 2009 poll commissioned by the National Wildlife Federation offers some actual information. The poll found overwhelming public support for federal legislation that would set firm limits on greenhouse gas emissions, thus stimulating massive private investments in clean energy technologies. Sixty-seven percent of registered voters polled think global warming is happening. Eighty-two percent of voters polled support the U.S. government "increasing investment in clean energy sources" and 67 percent support the U.S. government "limiting carbon pollution and other gases that may cause global warming." The poll was conducted by the Benenson Strategy Group from December 12-15, 2009.
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