Thursday, January 22, 2009

You had me at "last"

Obama Urgent on Warming, Public Cool - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com
The latest in an annual series of polls from the Pew Research Center on people’s top priorities for their elected leaders shows that America and President Obama are completely out of sync on human-caused global warming. Mr. Obama stressed the issue throughout his campaign and several times in his inaugural speech, mentioning stabilizing climate in the same breath as preventing nuclear conflict at one point.

According to the survey of 1,503 adults, global warming, on its own, ranks last out of 20 surveyed issues.
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Although the more general issue of protecting the environment ranked higher than climate (named by 41 percent of the poll subjects) that figure was 15 percentage points lower than in the same poll a year ago.

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