December 12, 2009

(global warming news) New poll: 70 percent of Americans agree that global warming is occurring - Mongabay.com

A new poll, taken in the midst of the scandal involving hacked emails from climate change scientists, shows that a significant majority (70 percent) of Americans agree with climatologists that the earth is warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) found in their last review that there was a 90 percent chance that rising temperatures were due to human activities. Conducted by the Ipsos/McCaltchy from December 3-6th, the poll also found that a very slim majority (52 percent) of Americans are for a cap-and-trade system to lower greenhouse gas emissions. The poll interviewed 1,210 American and has a margin of error of 2.

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