No Majority Anywhere Doubts Climate Change
How Americans Think About Climate Change, in Six Maps
Nadja Popovich, John Schwartz And Tatiana Schlossberg, March 21, 2017 (NY Times)
“Americans overwhelmingly believe that global warming is happening, and…[a] majority of adults in every congressional district in the nation support limiting carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants [according to Yale University research. But many Republicans in Congress (and some Democrats) agree with President Trump, who this week may move to kill an Obama administration plan that would have scaled back the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions…Nationally, about seven in 10 Americans support regulating carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants – and 75 percent support regulating CO2 as a pollutant more generally. But lawmakers are unlikely to change direction soon…[because committed activists are shaping] politicians’ approaches to issues like climate change…” click here for more
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