Support for climate change action drops, Stanford poll finds

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/climate-change-survey-050812.html

[font face=Serif]Stanford Report, May 8, 2012
[font size=5]Support for climate change action drops, Stanford poll finds[/font]
[font size=4]The drop was concentrated among Americans who distrust climate scientists.[/font]

By Rob Jordan

[font size=3]Americans' support for government action on global warming remains high but has dropped during the past two years, according to a new survey by Stanford researchers in collaboration with Ipsos Public Affairs. Political rhetoric and cooler-than-average weather appear to have influenced the shift, but economics doesn't appear to have played a role.

The survey directed by Jon Krosnick, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, shows that support for a range of policies intended to reduce future climate change dropped by an average of 5 percentage points per year between 2010 and 2012.

In a 2010 Stanford survey, more than three-quarters of respondents expressed support for mandating more efficient and less polluting cars, appliances, homes, offices and power plants. Nearly 90 percent of respondents favored federal tax breaks to spur companies to produce more electricity from water, wind and solar energy. On average, 72 percent of respondents supported government action on climate change in 2010. By 2012, that support had dropped to 62 percent.

The drop was concentrated among Americans who distrust climate scientists, even more so among such people who identify themselves as Republicans. Americans who do not trust climate science were especially aware of and influenced by recent shifts in world temperature, and 2011 was tied for the coolest of the last 11 years.

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[Speck Tater]

1. They'll come around when the sea water is up to their chins. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Or the wildfires are at their door, or a tornado or hurricane carries their door away.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. Don’t count on it

People in upstate New York got hit by 2 floods last year, and experienced a freakishly warm “Summer in March” yet still, “don’t believe in Climate Change.”

[kristopher]

3. Not good but it could be worse.

With the rise of wholesale Republican insanity, it's a miracle there isn't more of a drop.

Another one from Yale as of 4/2012
http://environment.yale.edu/climate/news/Policy-Support-March-2012/

The write up on the Yale poll by Climate Progress:

Poll: 75 Percent of Americans Support Regulating CO2 As A Pollutant, 60 Percent Support Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax



http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/26/471840/poll-75-of-americans-support-co2-regulation-60-support-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax/

Thanks for posting the poll, I'm looking forward to reviewing the questions.

[Nihil]

4. Bit sad about the "Expand offshore drilling" support in that one ...

... 62% support it ... so much for the impact of the Deepwater Horizon anniversary ...



(but yes, the other results are more promising)