New poll: 68% of Americans support aggressive international climate treaty

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A poll released today by the Yale Project on Climate Change and its partners finds that 68 percent of Americans support a new international treaty requiring the United States to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the yearย 2050.

โ€œOne of the most surprising findings was the growing sense of urgency,โ€ said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change and the studyโ€™s principal investigator. โ€œNearly half of Americans now believe that global warming is either already having dangerous impacts on people around the world or will in the next 10 years โ€“ a 20-percentage-point increase since 2004. These results indicate a sea change in publicย opinion.โ€

โ€œIn another surprising finding, 40 percent of respondents say a presidential candidateโ€™s position on global warming will be extremely important (16 percent) or very important (24 percent) in their decision about whom to vote for. โ€œWith the presidential primaries and general election near,โ€ he said, โ€œcandidates should recognize that global warming has become an important issue for theย electorate.โ€

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