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Global warming tops list of Americans' environmental concerns mongabay.com October 31, 2006 The poll found that almost three-quarters of the respondents felt the government should do more to deal with global warming and 60 percent agreed that there's enough evidence to warrant some level of action. It also found that individuals were willing to contribute their own money to help prevent climate change - am average of $21 more per month on their electricity bill to "solve" global warming. The findings mark a dramatic shift from three years ago, when climate change ranked sixth out of 10 environmental concerns.
Almost half of the more than 1,200 respondents ranked global warming in first or second place on their list of the "most important environmental problems facing the U.S. today." In 2003, destruction of ecosystems, water pollution and toxic waste ranked higher. Nevertheless, respondents' understanding of climate change science changed little since the 2003 survey. "It's not that people have learned something fundamental about the science, but they've come to understand that this problem is real," said Ansolabehere. "It takes a prolonged discussion of a complex topic like this really to move public concern, and what's happened over the past three years has got to continue." This article is based on a Massachusetts Institute of Technology news release written by Nancy Stauffer of the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. Recommend this article? Comments? >Digg this article | >Hugg this article | Contact News options
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