That’s about as good as it gets, though (you can see the poll overhead here. There are many links, the one with topline results has the full metrics)
(Newsmax-AP) Most Americans are willing to pay a little more each month to fight global warming — but only a tiny bit, according to a new poll. Still, environmental policy experts hail that as a hopeful sign.
Seventy-one percent want the federal government to do something about global warming, including 6 percent who think the government should act even though they are not sure that climate change is happening, according to a poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
And those polled said they’d be willing to foot a little of that cost in higher electric bills.
If the cost of fighting climate change is only an additional $1 a month, 57 percent of Americans said they would support that. But as that fee goes up, support for it plummets. At $10 a month, 39 percent were in favor and 61 percent opposed. At $20 a month, the public is more than 2-to-1 against it. And only 1-in-5 would support $50 a month.
Huh. These numbers are arrived at with a Republican/Democrat/Independent survey which breaks down to 22/35/24 sampling, with 19% saying “none of these.” So, vastly oversamples Democrats, and still we get that number.
Of those polled, 77 percent said climate change is happening, 13 percent weren’t sure, and only 10 percent said it wasn’t happening.
The problem here is that the question doesn’t delineate between natural climate change and a position where humans are mostly/solely responsible. If you ask me, yes, we are seeing climatic changes, but, doesn’t mean I think mankind is mostly/solely responsible.
Anyhow, the majority who are willing to pay more than a $1 a month are Democrats, so, have at it, folks! Practice what you preach.
