Trakar
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AGW Denial: Less popular than Roswell alien cover-up, 9-11 no-planers, and Chemtrail bleevers!
http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/files/Climate-Policy-Support-April-2013.pdf
Which seems to be about the most relevant peer-group representatives I could find, though Elvis-Lives and Bat-Boy devotees did nearly make the list!
Highlights:
http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/files/Climate-Policy-Support-April-2013.pdf
Which seems to be about the most relevant peer-group representatives I could find, though Elvis-Lives and Bat-Boy devotees did nearly make the list!
Highlights:
Of course, opinions and votes are often two different things, and should not be confused; but it does look like an uphill battle for those who are working to win many of these peoples votes when the levels of support for things their candidates are publically denouncing are so pronounced. A large majority of Americans (87%, down 5 percentage points since Fall 2012) say the president and the Congress should make developing sources of clean energy a very high (26%), high (32%), or medium priority (28%). Few say it should be a low priority (12%).
Most Americans (70%, down 7 points since Fall 2012) say global warming should be a very high (16%), high (26%), or medium priority (29%) for the president and Congress. Three in ten (28%) say it should be a low priority.
Majorities of Americans support:
Providing tax rebates for people who purchase energy-efficient vehicles or solar panels (71%);
Funding more research into renewable energy sources (70%);
Regulating CO2 as a pollutant (68%);
Requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax and using the money to pay down the national debt (61%);
Eliminating all subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry (59%);
Expanding offshore drilling for oil and natural gas off the U.S. coast (58%);
Requiring electric utilities to produce at least 20% of their electricity from renewable energy sources, even if it costs the average household an extra $100 a year (55%).