| Only 33% Think Most Americans Blame Humans for Global Warming |
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25/03/2011 07:51 (423 Day 05:02 minutes ago) | |||||
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The FINANCIAL -- President Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations, among others, argue that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity. A plurality of voters recognize that this view is held mostly by liberals rather than by all Americans.
In fact, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters mistakenly think most Americans agree that global warming is caused primarily by human activity. Forty-six percent (46%) recognize that the view is held primarily by liberals
In a series of several separate surveys since August, roughly 40% of Likely Voters consistently have blamed global warming primarily on human activity. A plurality has just as consistently found that planetary trends are chiefly to blame.
Last April, 59% believed that there is a significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming. Most (54%) voters believe the news media makes global warming appear worse than it really is.
Female voters feel more strongly than males than most Americans believe human activity is the chief cause of global warming, but the majority of male voters say that position is held mostly by liberals.
Just 24% of Americans considered Al Gore an expert in global warming. The former Vice President won an Academy Award for "An Inconvenient Truth," his documentary on the subject. He also won a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his global warming activism.
Rasmussen Reports in the coming months will be testing a number of general statements routinely expressed in the political arena, asking Likely U.S.
Voters if that position is held mostly by conservatives, mostly by liberals, if the view is shared by most Americans or if hardly anybody believes it.
Forty-six percent (46%) of voters, for example, say the idea that "government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" is held mostly by conservatives, but 40% recognize it is shared by most Americans.
The Obama administration has acted on the belief that increased government spending is good for the economy, but a solid plurality of voters recognize that this view is not widely shared by the American people.
Most voters have consistently said for years that tax cuts are good for the economy, but voters underestimate the public support for that position.
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