{"id":1537,"date":"2010-01-21T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2010-04-06T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T17:44:10","slug":"poll-results-the-people-want-a-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/01\/21\/poll-results-the-people-want-a-climate-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll Results: The People Want a Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate and clean energy legislation got strong support today from an unlikely source &#8212; Frank Luntz, the prominent Republican pollster.<\/p>\n<p>Luntz&#8217;s firm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworddoctors.com\/\">The Word Doctors<\/a>, just finished a national poll of more than 1,000 American voters.\u00a0 He unveiled the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/documents\/10738_Language-of-a-Clean-Energy-Economy.pdf\">results of that poll<\/a> [PDF] this morning at a news conference with EDF President Fred Krupp and NRG Energy&#8217;s CEO David Crane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line: <\/strong><strong>Americans are eager for Congress to act <\/strong>on climate legislation that would promote energy independence and a healthier environment.<\/p>\n<p>Luntz says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans want their leaders to act on climate change \u2013 but not necessarily for the reasons you think. A clear majority of Americans believe climate change is happening. \u00a0This is true of McCain voters and Obama voters alike.<\/p>\n<p>And even those that don\u2019t still believe it is essential for America to pursue policies that promote energy independence and a cleaner, healthier environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(You can play the <strong>audio of the entire event<\/strong> at the bottom of this post.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the most interesting results from the poll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>majority of Americans believe climate change is occurring<\/strong> and is caused at least in part by humans. Only a small minority &#8212; 18 percent &#8212; do not believe climate change is real. (Those numbers stay about the same if you call it &#8220;global warming.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>57 percent agreed with the statement: It doesn&#8217;t matter if there is or isn&#8217;t climate change. <strong>It is still in America&#8217;s best interest to develop new sources of energy<\/strong> that are clean, reliable, efficient and safe.<\/li>\n<li>National security is the main reason that people support cap and trade. Across the demographic board, people liked the idea that clean energy will: <strong>liberate us from this oil addiction.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the latest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/article.cfm?contentID=10453\">a long line of\u00a0polls<\/a> that show Americans want clean energy. But Luntz&#8217;s reputation as\u00a0longtime Republican advisor may give this one extra political resonance.<\/p>\n<p>Luntz said <strong>his data shows\u00a0 a bipartisan consensus<\/strong> on the issue and provides a road map for getting legislation passed.<br \/>\n<a name=\"audio\"><br \/>\nEDF&#8217;s Fred Krupp summed it up:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"audio\">Frank\u2019s research proves that that no matter who Americans voted for in 2008, in 2010 they want to see Congress act on climate legislation.\u00a0 It\u2019s a national security priority, it\u2019s a crucial means to reduce pollution, and it\u2019s essential to creating permanent American jobs.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px\"><a name=\"audio\">[powerpress url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.edf.org\/audio\/krupp-conf-01212010.mp3&#8243;]Complete audio recording of the news conference.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate and clean energy legislation got strong support today from an unlikely source &#8212; Frank Luntz, the prominent Republican pollster. Luntz&#8217;s firm, The Word Doctors, just finished a national poll of more than 1,000 American voters.\u00a0 He unveiled the results of that poll [PDF] this morning at a news conference with EDF President Fred Krupp &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poll Results: The People Want a Climate Bill - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2010\/01\/21\/poll-results-the-people-want-a-climate-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poll Results: The People Want a Climate Bill - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Climate and clean energy legislation got strong support today from an unlikely source &#8212; Frank Luntz, the prominent Republican pollster. 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