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.
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Man the lifeboats, the BS meter just overloaded!
I think the people at the Times have had one toke to many!
BS poll....nothing to see here!!!
You lie!
Support for global warming in the US is based on 97% refusing to acknowledge its significance.
Say what?!
I swear these ‘journalists’ live in an alternate reality and just pop into ours to write some weird stuff and then go back home to their Bizarro world.
Their poll include NYT, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and WaPo employees, as well as Al Gore (because of his size he got counted twice.)
The polls results are probably accurate.
However it doesn’t account for the Bradley Effect or the failure to test for the impact the binding rules will have on the respondents.
For example, “do you want the US to sign the climate treaty?” is different than “do you want the US to sign the climate treaty if it means your taxes will go up and the economy declines?)
Wasn’t there a poll the other day showing 90%+ of Americans didn’t see global warming as a threat?
WHY? Because it comes from the NY Slimes.
We’re going to run out of Shovels during this Paris insanity
This is a poll of the NYTimes staff, right?
What a bunch of cr4p. poll after poll when asked what is the most important issue....global warming is always last.
That’s what you get when you poll NYC.
Like “Obamacare” all the know nothing drones LOVE the idea of these vague “feel good about you-self for caring” government agendas, until they see the price tags.
The NY Times and CBS news. Now there’s a credible duo.
2/3rds
That’salottafolks. I’mignantannadon’twanttobewrongga.
IwannaUSfitengrobulwarming.
darrrr.
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