A new study released today by Yale University in conjunction with George Mason University finds the majority of Americans favor regulating carbon emissions and educational programs related to climate change. While the recently released Yale poll which found Americans opinions on the urgency of acting to control greenhouse gases declining and skepticism rising, the new study entitled titled Climate Change in the American Mind:Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies in January 2010 finds broad based public support for action on climate issues regardless of political preferences.
The new poll found that a majority of Americans support:
Protecting the environment, even if it reduces economic growth (63%).
Schools should teach our children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions
to global warming (70%)Our government should establish programs to teach Americans about global warming (60%)
Our government should establish programs to help Americans reduce their own
greenhouse gas emissions (65%)Our government should establish programs to teach Americans how to save energy (75%)
Overall, protecting the environment Improves economic growth and provides new jobs (67%)
When there is a conflict between environmental protection and economic growth, protecting the environment is more important, even if it reduces economic growth (63%)
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If we are wrong about Climate Change and still act- we get a cleaner environmen
A smart, moral person would chose life for their children! We told our children to clean up their rooms and look at the mess we are leaving them to clean up.
Up in New England, we had the blizzard of 78, and have not had one like it since.
did you ever hear of weather cycles??
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Fair and balanced reporting? No, it's just like most of the pro-warmin
Just in Lobby Money Spent:
ExxonMobil -$55 million in Washington since 1998
ChevronTex
Marathon Oil - $29 million
BP - $28 million
Royal Dutch/Shel
American Petroleum Institute $20 million
Occidental Petroleum - $12 million
Total: $203,000,0
2007 PROFITS for oil companies:
Exxon’s $40.6 billion
Shell $31.3 billion
Chevron $18.7 billion
ConocoPhil
BP $20.8 billion
Total: 123.3 billion
The global warming crowd has procured 50 billion dollars in funding since 1990,
A scam the equal of Bernie Madoff.