FAIRFAX, Va., April 2 (UPI) — A majority of Republicans in the United States think America should take steps to address climate change, a poll indicates.
In the poll conducted by the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, 62 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents said they feel action is necessary to deal with climate change.
The survey conducted in January polled more than 700 people who self-identified as Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents about energy and climate change, a university release reported Tuesday.
“Over the past few years, our surveys have shown that a growing number of Republicans want to see Congress do more to address climate change,” Mason Professor Edward Maibach said. “In this survey, we asked a broader set of questions to see if we could better understand how Republicans, and Independents who have a tendency to vote Republican, think about America’s energy and climate change situation.”
Respondents, by a 2 to 1 margin, said America should take action to reduce its fossil fuel use and that the benefits of clean energy outweigh the costs of increased government regulation or higher energy prices.
Only a third of respondents said they agreed with the Republican Party’s present position on climate issues.
“The findings from this survey suggest there is considerable support among conservatives for accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels and toward clean renewable forms of energy, and for taking steps to address climate change,” Maibach said.
“Perhaps the most surprising finding, however, is how few of our survey respondents agreed with the Republican Party’s current position on climate change.”
The poll was conducted between Jan. 12 and Jan. 27, with an average margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Copyright 2013 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
Read Michael Crichton’s STATE OF FEAR. Fiction? I think not.
Crichton always did a great deal of research on his subjects and I was surprised when I read State of Fear at the claims made. It is disturbing but the idea of eliminating fossil fuel consumption is not a bad idea. We are polluting our air, rivers and streams, and ground.
@bodacious-You are right in that it is a good idea. But it must be done on a controlled basis without sacrificing other methods until it is proven. Just like wind was forced on us and it is the most unreliable for of producing energy that there is. Then we have gasohol that takes 20 gallons of good water to produce 1 gallon of additive and gives back polluted water. Not a good deal at all but, it keeps getting pushed. Why would you want to use your food or drinking water to make fuel to drive with. Makes no sense at all. But some people are getting rich over it.
Just shows how dumbed down people are becoming, and our universities, heck our entire education system only further stimulate this to push along their liberal agendas. Don’t believe me, do a little research on Maurice Strong, the father of global warming-oh, suprised it wasn’t Al Gore? A little background info-he was the secretary general of the UN, got everybody started on the global warming idea, received worldwide aclaim and awards for it. Anyhow, things got “heated”, when he got tied up in the oil for food scandal. Then it was discovered many of the studies he had backed up had been altered from their original data. Want to know where this guy is today, he is an entrepreneur in China, helping them sell and trade carbon credits so they can build cheaper cars and flood the market. Does this sound like someone worried about climate control. People need to wake up and realize what is going on. Formal education breeds idiots.
They are Marxists…no communists! I don’t know the difference but they are both of them! lol
OMG! The Republicans are starting to believe in the reality of climate change. WTF is going on here? The next thing you know they will be supporting the radical, liberal media notion that the earth is round, not flat. May God help them.