Americans are hailing the inauguration of a president vowing to “heal the planet,” but a growing number of them don’t think it’s their problem.
That’s the finding of a new Rasmussen poll, released on the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration.
On Monday evening, Rasmussen Reports published a poll saying that 44 percent of Americans blame global warming on “planetary trends,” while only 41 percent blamed it on human activity.
The opinions break down along political lines, Rasmussen found:
Fifty-nine percent of Democrats blame global warming on human activity, compared to 21% of Republicans. Two-thirds of GOP voters (67%) see long-term planetary trends as the cause versus 23% of Democrats. Voters not affiliated with either party by eight points put the blame on planetary trends.
In July 2006, 46% of voters said global warming is caused primarily by human activities, while 35% said it is due to long-term planetary trends.
In April of last year, 47% of Americans blamed human activity versus 34% who viewed long-term planetary trends as the culprit. But the numbers have been moving in the direction of planetary trends since then.
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doggone
3 years ago
If it is not our problem
Then who's problem is climate change?
I looked for someone to do something about it but I did not find anyone else - just us.
There are two apropos articles on BBC this morning:
Solar wind at 50 year low
Mist reduction in Europe causes heating
We did nothing to address this issue during the recent economic boom years - quite to the contrary pollution and fossil fuel consumption skyrocketed.
With harsher conditions to look forward to - both climatic and economic -
What can we hope for the future implementation of sensible action?
(insert four blank pages plagiarizing Kurt Vonnegut)
anarcho
3 years ago
What do you expect?
Is this a result of the ramping up of the global-warming denier propaganda recently?
But then 40% of Americans think the world is 6000 years old and that Saddam Hussein was behind 9-11, so what can you expect from such a bunch of dumb bells?