Poll finds growing Republican support for action on climate change

New York Times : According to a recent telephone poll, a growing number of Americans believe that climate change is occurring and is caused by human activity. In addition, a majority of Americans support government action to fight global warming, and two-thirds prefer political candidates who say they will take on that challenge. The poll was conducted by the New York Times, Stanford University, and Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan environmental research group. Although by party, Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to feel that global warming is an important issue, the poll found that 61% of Republicans admit that reducing emissions is essential to curbing global warming and 51% say the government needs to take action. Many Republican politicians, however, continue to resist efforts to curb global warming on the basis that they will hurt the economy.