Poll: 91% Of Americans Aren’t Worried About Global Warming
Michael Bastasch
11:10 AM 02/01/2016
Chief Bill Erasmus Den nation Canada people delivers a speech during a Greenpeace activists demonstration at the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 9, 2015. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
As Iowans prepare to vote for presidential candidates, a new poll has surfaced showing once again the vast majority of Americans don’t rank global warming as the most serious issue facing the country.
A YouGov poll of 18,000 people in 17 countries found only 9.2 percent of Americans rank global warming as their biggest concern. Only Saudi Arabians were less concerned about global warming at 5.7 percent. The biggest concern for Americans was global terrorism — 28 percent of Americans polled listed this as their top issue.
Despite a big PR push by President Barack Obama to tout his administration’s global warming agenda, most Americans have been unconvinced it’s the country’s most pressing issue. A Fox News poll from November found only 3 percent of Americans list global warming as their top concern.
The Fox poll came out just before Obama met other world leaders in Paris to kick off another round of negotiations for an international treaty to cut carbon dioxide emissions. After weeks of haggling, United Nations delegates agreed to non-binding emissions cuts.
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