New Study - The Climate Majority

The New York Times recently published an op-ed by Jon Krosnick, professor at Stanford, regarding a new survey about global warming. The study revealed that a "huge majority of Americans still believe the earth has been gradually warming as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it."

Some of the statistics reported include "Fully 86 percent of our respondents said they wanted the federal government to limit the amount of air pollution that businesses emit, and 76 percent favored government limiting business’s emissions of greenhouse gases in particular. Not a majority of 55 or 60 percent — but 76 percent.

Large majorities opposed taxes on electricity (78 percent) and gasoline (72 percent) to reduce consumption. But 84 percent favored the federal government offering tax breaks to encourage utilities to make more electricity from water, wind and solar power.

And huge majorities favored government requiring, or offering tax breaks to encourage, each of the following: manufacturing cars that use less gasoline (81 percent); manufacturing appliances that use less electricity (80 percent); and building homes and office buildings that require less energy to heat and cool (80 percent).

Thus, there is plenty of agreement about what people do and do not want government to do."

Read the full article, "The Climate Majority."