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Surprise! U.S. thinks nuclear energy is a good idea

March 28, 2012 by Dan Yurman
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A Gallup poll shows 57% of Americans favor its continued use A poll published by the Gallup organization shows that a majority of Americans continue to favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity for the U.S. According to the poll, the 57% who favor nuclear power this year is identical to the percentage... [read more]

Not all energy is fungible - and it matters

March 22, 2012 by Steve Skutnik
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Via the NYT Green blog comes a new survey by the Pew Center indicating that a smaller majority of Americans now prefer further federal funding of research into alternative energy technologies (specifically, wind, solar, and hydrogen) as a priority over additional exploration of oil and gas supplies. If the comparison seems to be a bit of... [read more]

Geoengineering research, getting real

December 1, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Geoengineering research is emerging from the laboratory. Government-funded scientists in the UK are moving forward with a pair of small-scale, carefully-controlled experiments–one to test the qualities of particles that could be used to block the sun’s rays, and another in which droplets of water will be pumped into the air using a one-... [read more]

Americans lead charge into the abyss

October 28, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Yet another poll is out that details one more time how far American opinion on climate change is moving in the wrong direction. Since July 2006, the percentage of Americans who think “there is solid evidence the earth is warming” has dropped from 79% to 59%, and the overall portion blaming it on human activity dropped from 50% to 34%.... [read more]

Guest Post by Bill Becker - Climate Action: Down to Business

October 26, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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This is the first two parts of a multi-part series by guest blogger William Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. 1.  THE SITUATION There will come a time when governments are forced to act on global climate change. Its impacts will be increasingly devastating and undeniable. Its costs will swell... [read more]

Is new global warming poll cause for despair?

October 18, 2010 by Andrew Freedman
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News flash: Americans are confused about global warming. Of course, that's not exactly earth-shattering news, considering the bevy of polling data released during the past year, much of which has shown declining majority support for the view that global warming is primarily caused by human activities — a view held by the vast majority of climate scientists. [read more]

Public Opinion Issue Intensity Leans Republican, Except When it Comes to the Environment

September 7, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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In 9 of 15 issues examined in a recent AP-GfK Poll (pdf), more Americans who expressed intense interest in an issue voiced strong opposition to Obama's work on it, including the economy, unemployment, federal deficits and terrorism.Respondents were about evenly split over the president's efforts on five issues and strongly approved of... [read more]

Save the World or Beat China? How to Sell Cleantech Investment to America

June 14, 2010 by Christopher Williams
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Many of the issues we face with renewable energy and clean tech in general are technological problems, but I would argue many more of them have to do with framing the issues and convincing people to change. Technology won’t do it by itself, the adoption and change of behavior will be the hard part. We can learn a lot of lessons... [read more]

Public Still Believes in Climate Change

June 11, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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The majority of Americans do believe that Earth's climate is warming and they want the government to take action, according to Stanford Professor Jon Krosnick and his Political Psychology Research Group, but they still don't want to pay higher taxes. These findings echo Breakthrough's own social values research demonstrating strong... [read more]

Post BP Disaster: Support grows for comprehensive energy bill that makes carbon polluters pay

June 9, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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As the BP oil disaster drags on, the public’s desire for clean energy investments and increased oversight of corporate polluters has greatly intensified.  CAP’s Daniel J. Weiss and intern Ariel Powell have the important data and charts from a major new poll. The League of Conservation Voters commissioned a poll by the Benenson... [read more]

Boycotting Anti-Nuclear Activist Companies & Celebrities

June 6, 2010 by John Wheeler
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  Podcast – download the MP3 File Here During a recent conversation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a friend asked if anyone in the group was boycotting BP.  This led to a lively discussion about the effectiveness of boycotts and the inevitable question, “Who do you boycott?” Before I answer that question, I want to make... [read more]

Support for offshore oil drilling, dirty energy production gets dispersed by BP oil disaster

May 28, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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In the wake of the largest oil disaster in U.S. history, two just released polls by USA Today/Gallup show that Americans are increasingly skeptical of increased offshore drilling.  In the one month since the April 20th explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig, support for more offshore drilling has dropped by nearly 20 percent – a... [read more]

US: thumbs up for offshore drilling

May 24, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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At least that’s what a CNN poll says: 57% strongly or mildly still favor offshore drilling? Ouch. I bring this up to make an uncomfortable point about the level of disconnect between what we energy and enviro geeks obsess about and what jiggles the needle for mainstreamers. There’s a disturbing and tiresome tendency for all of us to... [read more]

Opinion polls underestimate Americans’ concern about the environment and global warming

May 13, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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When asked “What do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?” about 49 percent of respondents answered the economy or unemployment, while only 1 percent mentioned the environment or global warming. But when asked, “What do you think will be the most serious problem facing the world in the future if nothing... [read more]

Swift action unlikely on climate bill

May 12, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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President Obama has a better chance with banking reform than he does saving the planet Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., introduced today a nearly 1,000 page climate and  energy bill which hit the Senate floor with a resounding thud. Despite a politically savvy Christmas tree of political appeals to various energy and environmental... [read more]