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Posted on 11/30/2015 11:19:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A solid majority of Americans say the United States should join an international treaty to limit the impact of global warming, but on this and other climate-related questions, opinion divides sharply along partisan lines, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
Two-thirds of Americans support the United States joining a binding international agreement to curb growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but a slim majority of Republicans remain opposed, the poll found. Sixty-three percent of Americans -- including a bare majority of Republicans -- said they would support domestic policy limiting carbon emissions from power plants.
Public support for international and domestic measures to address climate change may provide a lift for American negotiators attending the major United Nations climate change conference that began in Paris on Monday. But the stark partisan divide on climate policy will still make it difficult for President Obama and his successors to put in place the energy and climate policies that will be needed to support a robust international agreement, the goal of the Paris talks.
Republicans in Congress and many Republican governors oppose Mr. Obam'’s proposal to limit emissions from power plants, for example, complicating his ability to meet targets he has set to comply with United Nations climate goals. And the Obama administration has made it clear that any agreement it would sign in Paris would not take the form of an internationally enforced treaty that would require Senate ratification.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nobody axed me ..
BS
95% of Americans KNOW that the NY Slimes is a pos rag sinking quickly.
Bald face LIES!!
Obama is going to copy the successful Iran deal model.
A formal treaty has no chance of being ratified by the Senate.
But a non-agreement agreement could become law if one third of the Senate blocks its rejection.
If I knew that it would at least do something productive to our World especially the United States, I’d be neutral on this, but for goodness sake they are go to throw money at it without producing a thing.
Even left wing sights have not had this kind of response in previous polling. In detailed polling, the number of Americans that even consider climate change to be significant, anthropomorphic or even measurable is less than 30%. This poll is highly selective in base numbers. It is a holiday poll and as such highly suspect. It further represents the worst of push polling in terms of suggestive material associated with the poll.
This is pure sophistry.
Who was polled? Pajama Boy and his two brothers?
Accepting that something “productive” should or could be done for a non-existent problem is the first sign that someone might accept that freedom comes from government.
Anecdotally, I happen to see more in the middle skeptics finally realizing that this is a far left plot of world wealth re-distribution.
Just communism under a different angle.
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True. But you do know that we will pour billions into this mess don’t you? And that is regardless of our complaints.
Who put up the questions used in this poll, and who compiled the results?
Transparency is no longer much respected at NYT. If it ever was.
Mankind cannot effectively cause any change in climate, except in very localized areas, which are otherwise shielded from almost all other factors. Once those other factors are allowed to enter the locality, the random changes negate virtually every effort mere humanity can exert on the short term, and on the long term as well.
The most powerful greenhouse gas of them all is water vapor.
Total BS. Two thirds of Americans are too stupid to understand “climate change”.
No they don’t. Most people think it is bullcrap.
The sad thing is that some large fraction of Americans fall for tricks like this and want to be in the majority.
Maybe 2/3rds of Americans that work for the NY Times.
Phhhttttt!
60 dbs if BS attenuation needed to protect the input circuit of my BS meter.
NFW!!!
BESIDES, GloBULL Warming/Climate Change barely registers as a blip on the list of American concerns. It always finishes near the bottom.
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