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YALE PROJECT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Poll: Americans Support Strong Climate, Energy Policies
NEW HAVEN, CONN - Despite a sharp drop in public concern over global warming, Americans—regardless of political affiliation—support the passage of federal climate and energy policies, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities.
The survey found support for:
- Funding more research on renewable energy, such as solar and wind power (85 percent)
- Tax rebates for people buying fuel-efficient vehicles or solar panels (82 percent)
- Establishing programs to teach Americans how to save energy (72 percent)
- Regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant (71 percent)
- School curricula to teach children about the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to global warming (70 percent)
- Signing an international treaty that requires the United States to cut emissions of carbon dioxide 90 percent by the year 2050 (61 percent)
- Establishing programs to teach Americans about global warming (60 percent)
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OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY
Community Carbon Fund Pilot Project Successfully Launched
NEW HAVEN, CONN - In 2005, Yale University took the bold and important step of committing to reducing its total greenhouse gas emissions to 10% below 1990 levels by 2020. Conservation, green construction, power plant and distribution efficiency, and renewable energy were all part of the University’s strategy for achieving its ambitious goal, but even taken together the University’s planners recognized that these measures were not going to get Yale to where it needed to be. Thus, enter the carbon offset market, through which Yale
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YALE PROJECT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
American Opinion Cools on Global Warming
NEW HAVEN, CONN - Public concern about global warming has dropped sharply since the fall of 2008, according to the results of a national survey released today by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities.
The survey found (1) only 50 percent of Americans now say they are “somewhat” or “very worried” about global warming, a 13-point decrease, (2) the percentage of Americans who think global warming is happening has declined 14 points, to 57 percent, and (3) The percentage of Americans who think global warming is caused
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