Economy Down, Public Down On Global Warming Concerns

Source: NYT

A new poll suggests that Americans, preoccupied with the economy,
are less worried about rising global temperatures than they were a year
ago but remain concerned with solving the nation’s energy problem.

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The findings are somewhat at odds with President Obama, who has put a high priority on staving off global warming and vowed Tuesday in his Inaugural Address to “roll back the specter of a warming planet.”

In the poll, released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center,
global warming came in last among 20 voter concerns; it trailed issues
like addressing moral decline and decreasing the influence of
lobbyists. Only 30 percent of the voters deemed global warming to be “a
top priority,” compared with 35 percent in 2008.