More crushing news for Al Gore: Over half of unaffiliated voters are climate realists

Energy Update - Rasmussen Reports™

Forty-six percent (46%) say global warming is caused primarily by long-term planetary trends, while 38% put the blame more on human activity. These findings continue a shift since the first of the year toward blaming planetary trends. Three percent (3%) think there is some other reason for global warming, and 12% are not sure.

Democrats are far more likely that GOP voters and unaffiliateds to describe global warming as a very serious problem. While 51% of Democrats say human activity is the primary cause of global warming, 59% of Republicans and 51% of unaffiliated voters point the finger at long-term planetary trends.

This partisan difference helps explain why 54% of all voters say President Obama believes global warming is caused primarily by human activity.