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Monday, December 31st, 2018

Most Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception: Poll

Author:     John Harwood
Source:     CNBC
Publication Date:     12:06 PM ET Mon, 17 Dec 2018
 Link: Most Americans want action on climate change. Republicans are the exception: Poll
Stephan:   The ignorant criminal we have as president, as the media tells us daily, only listens to his base. Unfortunately, as this data shows, his base are morons who live in a fact-free world. That makes it unlikely that as long as Trump is president anything will be done about preparing for climate change.

  • In this photo taken on November 19, 2015, smoke belches from a coal-fired power station near Datong, in China’s northern Shanxi province.
    Credit: Greg Baker/AFP

    In a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll 66 percent of Americans now say they’ve seen enough evidence to justify action on climate change, up from 51 percent two decades ago.

  • That figure incorporates 85 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of independents, 71 percent of women, 61 percent of men and strong majorities of all racial groups.
  • Resistance comes only from the one-third of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans. A 56 percent majority of the GOP says either that concern about climate change is unwarranted or that more research is necessary before taking action.

Americans have reached consensus on the need to act in response to climate change with one conspicuous exception: Republicans.

A new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll identifies that sharp break in the evolving pattern of public opinion as scientists have amplified their warnings of rising global temperatures and linked them to a […]

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