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Poll Shows Partisan Divide on Climate Crisis
May 15th 2008 12:04PM
Filed Under:eJohn McCain, Featured Stories, Environment, 2008 President
Wired's Brandon Keim reports that a new poll from the Pew Research Center shows a sharp drop in the number of Americans who believe the Earth is warming. Since a January poll, the percentage of those who accept global warming dropped from 77 percent to 71 percent. Keim writes, "Seeing as how 2007 was the second-warmest year on record, and the popular press finally took climate change seriously, I'm not sure how attitudes shifted in this manner."
Indeed the poll comes at a time when evidence continues to pile up that climate change is real. USA Today reports that a new study shows "rapid glacier melts in North America, South America and Europe; trees and plants sprouting leaves much earlier in the spring in Europe, Asia and North America; permafrost melting in Asia; and changes in bird migration patterns across Europe, North America and Australia, all in response to rising global temperatures."
Oddly, the numbers reflect a growing partisan divide at a time when the Republican nominee, John McCain, is campaigning on the issue. The sharpest drop is among Republicans, with just 49 percent, down from 62 percent in January. Speaking yesterday at a Portland, Oregon, wind turbine manufacturer, McCain signaled his determination to lead the world in a campaign against global warming. "I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach - an approach that speaks to the interests and obligations of every nation," he said.
Seattle Post Intelligencer cartoonist David Horsey posted a cartoon here that illustrates the problems McCain may have with his base if he continues to push this issue.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 5)Dr. Max Chartrand1:27PMMay 15th 2008
McCain presented a realistic and achievable scenario this morning and came across very presidential and knowledgable. We appreciate his honesty and humility. His presentation is so far removed from the empty rhetoric of the leftist candidates of the opposite party that it's almost embarrassing. We urge all to support John McCain as the next President of the United States. --Dr. & Mrs. Max Chartrand
Flipflop1:35PMMay 15th 2008
The more I hear from McCain, the closer I come to believing he will be the one that can and will bring about even an ounce of postive change benefitual to our populace.
While Obama's predominate message is about change, I haven't heard from him as to what kind of change he promotes. It it positive, negative, or is it merely change for the sake of change?
Better straighten up yo' act, boy, or Mac gone come upside yo' head!
Katherine2:03PMMay 15th 2008
If Hillary doesn't get dem nom, I am voting for McCain. He is NOT the same as Bush. Republicans are having a hard time with him as nominee, which is a good sign to me! (lol)
I heard McCain referred to as a "green republican" on TV the other day, well, I like the sound of that.
McCain should put up a webpage on his website called: I Welcome Dissatisfied Democrats" There should be tips on how to drop the dem party and unify, etc.
Hillary or McCain.
Never Obama.
Davidg2:15PMMay 15th 2008
Katherine, that's a great idea. You should email McCain's campaign with it.
I think he's okay.
Whether or not we believe global warming is real, we should still strive to be as "green" as possible. Who wants a dirty planet?
We as Americans, must be the leaders. Places like China just don't care.
Katherine2:42PMMay 15th 2008
Davidg:
Yup, I just sent an email to McCain's website. I wonder if they would do it. They should, he is going to scoop up a hell of a lot of moderate and conservative democrats if Hill doesn't get dem nom.
Bill2:42PMMay 15th 2008
This climate change is not the faught of the human.Its just how the world is positioned on its axis.The goverment will use globle warming to push new techeogly and it will be a new source of taxsation.This old earth has been here longer than man,even when the nuclear bombs were being tested around the world,what damage did they do,none.What is sad,is that we have people in our govermentwho want the goverment to control all aspects of our lives.these people do not work for the betterment of the people,they work for more self power and to make the goverment larger.look at the mess were in because we can't get our own oil,why? because the gov.has controlwe need change, LESS GOVERMENT
JOHN3:11PMMay 15th 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpCH7OS2nc OBAMAS RELIGION
iynaroc023:18PMMay 15th 2008
If this election has done anything, it reveals that America is still seriously ill with racism. People show their true color when they're in tight spot. All these speeches we've all heard for years about how much progress has been made. This election shows very vividly that no progress has been made. Places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia need to spend more money on educating their citizens. That somebody is uneducated, lunch bucket, housewife, joe six pack, doesn't mean they shouldn't have the ability to think for themselves and be able to look beyond the obvious. No excuse at all. It's pathetic that people are proud to say they voted based on race or gender rather than for better America. Very shameful. I guess another 4 more Bush years is not far fetched and when that happens nobody should complain.
Jenn3:22PMMay 15th 2008
I think the Arbor Day Foundation should get something going for or with McCain.
Heather4:26PMMay 15th 2008
iynaroc02, do you know anything about Ohio or West Virginia for that matter? The "youngings" ,since you have generalized all the people of these states as uneducated are not racists. The older people are and that is on both sides (black and white) because that is what they are accustomed to. Just because YOU are uneducated and can't make an informed statement, doesn't mean you can call the states that hold elections in their hands uneducated. Obama spent 1 hour in West Virginia....1 hour.. The Clintons spent a great deal of time going to all the cities. It's not like everyone in West Virginia is a white hill jack that lives up a holler.. NO! We have a multitude of black, whites (granted they are the majority EVERY WHERE), hispanics, asians, and indians. He gave up on WV and that's why he lost. He even lost supporters that he had previously depsite EVERYTHING that has been said about him and his past because he didn't care about WV. All he wanted to do was go drink a beer and play pool in a nasty bar in Charleston with some our states corrupt officials (who I didn't vote for). If I were old enough to have voted in the previous Presidential election, I WOULDN'T have voted Bush. For you to say that OH, PA, and WV are uneducated and racist for not voting Obama, then you sound pretty classist. So, where are you from again because if it ISN'T Japan or any other industrialized nation, YOU probably DIDN'T get a quality education either because the U.S.'s ENTIRE educational system is flawed with standardized testing that EVERY state is required to give.
-Vote for Another Clinton, To Clean Up After Another Bush-
Katherine5:01PMMay 15th 2008
Obama supporters unwise to attack Hillary Clinton:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2004411946_harrop14.html
"Obama can't beat John McCain without large chunks of Clinton's core constituency: women, Hispanics and the white working class. Dumping on their candidate is one step removed from dumping on them — and some of the Obama people don't even bother with that step."
mafresources5:37PMMay 15th 2008
Learn more about Obama's stated foreign policy positions on Global Terrorism, Iran, North Korea, Israel, and more.
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com
Que sera sera5:38PMMay 15th 2008
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media reports on the findings of a New Zealand blogger, Trevor Loudon, who has published the text of a letter by Communist Party USA sympathizer Frank Chapman, written to the party newspaper. In referring to Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucuses, Chapman wrote, “Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move, it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle...Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor
Tom5:51PMMay 15th 2008
I WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON OR JOHN MCCAIN.
NO OBAMA
Jan6:08PMMay 15th 2008
What odd positions some people take on Obama. I have yet to hear anything substantial or accurate against him. And for those who assume all women should be offended, we just aren't. It's a crappy reason to choose a president, just as color is. To stomp off in a huff is to totally undervalue the democratic process and the importance of this election.
McCain, while moderate on a few issues such as GW, is very Bush-like when it comes to extending tax cuts, attacking Iran, rolling back Roe v Wade, and pushing the Supreme Court so far right it will fall over. Funny positions for Hillary's followers to espouse.
Katherine6:20PMMay 15th 2008
Pocket Guide to Obamaniac Behavior:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/15/lavender-newswires-brilliant-guide-to-obamabots/
Que sera sera6:48PMMay 15th 2008
Jan6:08PMMay 15th 2008
John McCain is not anything like George Bush. Barack Obama is unfit to be president. It has nothing to do with race or sex.
demsforMcCain8:32PMMay 15th 2008
keep coming down on hillary voters and you will see how fast we will go to mccain. we will not vote for obamma. you can't take millons of people and spit in ther face and think we will vote for obamma not going to happen
bonbon12:38AMMay 16th 2008
I remember the first Earth day, I was in high school, and we all brought a bag of garbage to school, and made a huge pile in the front of the school. it was a gesture, and really only amounted to a pile of garbage. nothing changed.
we knew then what was happening to our planet, we knew.
I have said for years, if we have to recycle, why do they make more and more stuff, that can't be recycled, and has to be sent to landfills.
the 70's brought attention to gas and oil problems, and now 38 years later nothing has changed.
we knew there was a problem, we just chose to ignore it. it is what we do, and we do it very well... look at Obama we ignore the Obvious, well don't we???
the technology is available now, to build cars and trucks that get 100 miles to the gallon., so the gas companies will simply raise their prices, and nothing will change.
plus cars can be made to last a lot longer, but then car sales will go down, so nothing will change.
advancements have been made. but there is no money in wind and soloar power, compared to National ( greed) grid. if we actually paid just for the power we use, our light bill would be less than half what we actually pay, we all know that.
the average, small town people, who cling to their guns and religion types, are the ones expected to conserve, we should buy the small inconvenient cars, to save gas, we should keep our thermostats low, in the winter, and not run our air conditioners in the summer.
while the people in Washington ie presidents on down, use limo's, or huge SUV's that are left running, often day and night.
colleges often have night games, and floodlights are left on long after they are needed. why can't they be solar powered. such a waste.
sure we have a problem, but one we caused ourselves, and one we have chosen to ignore for what 38 -40 years now,
think if people had worked to solve these problems long ago, how much beter off we would be, now.
but we just ignored them, it is something we do well. to bad we couldn't do well at the important things. nothing will change.
and most politicians don't care,
Hillary has a plan to create alternative power sources, to have more green power, which will create jobs, but is anyone listening. no she is a woman. well who knows more about saving, and conserving than women. she has good sound ideas, that will work
stop and think. maybe she does have the answers, and you let her sex keep her from having the chance needed, to help this country.
cause until you do, nothing will change.
VOTE FOR HILLARY ALL THE WAY YES WE WILL...
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Dr. Max Chartrand1:26PMMay 15th 2008
McCain presented a realistic and achievable scenario this morning and came across very presidential and knowledgable. We appreciate his honesty and humility. His presentation is so far removed from the empty rhetoric of the leftist candidates of the opposite party that it's almost embarrassing. We urge all to support John McCain as the next President of the United States. --Dr. & Mrs. Max Chartrand