Gallup Poll: More Americans optimistic about environment under Obama

[wpsedgwick]

Source: Green Technology Daily

Since President Barack Obama took office, Americans have grown more satisfied with the overall quality of the environment in the United States, according to the latest Gallup Poll.

Positive ratings of the current quality of the environment have increased by five to eight points compared to a year ago among all three party groups - Democrats, Republicans and independents.

The poll also showed a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence.

Read more: http://www.greentechnologydaily.com/climate-change/665-poll-more-americans-optimistic-about-environment-under-obama

[Cha]

1. Thank you..I know I'm 100%

more optimistic.

[jtrockville]

4. Any % of zero is still zero, so I can't attach a percentage to my optimism

But put it this way: I'm optimistic with Obama administration.
Whereas I knew Bush would do nothing but trash the environment.

[Mithreal]

8. 17500 truckloads of nuclear waste heading to my home state.

Must be nice.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/hanford/?rc=tw

Maybe lend a hand and keep the Columbia from becoming more of a waste dump? Please and thanks.

The DOE's proposal would put about 17,500 truckloads of radioactive waste on Pacific Northwest freeways: I-5, I-205, I-84, and I-90. That's more than two trucks per day, every day, for more than 20 years.

The DOE's own analysis in 2008 showed that even without traffic accidents or a terrorist attack, trucking highly radioactive waste would lead to as many as 816 fatal cancers in the public along the transit routes.

And that doesn't even take into account groundwater contamination of the nearby Columbia River.

[ashling]

2. How long before we hear Republicans repeating (over and over)

Americans have said that they don't want environmental care.
They have said over and over that they don't care about the environment.
Americans OVERWHELMINGLY reject Obama's concern for the quality of the environment
American's want jobs ... (for my family, coal company lobbyists, oil company lobbyists ... )

:puke:

[Lagomorph]

3. We've sunk billions upon billions...

..into the environment. Geeze... I've been doing more than just watching the work for over 40 years. I've done my small part to help plant and care for millions of trees and detoxify thousands of acres. I've hauled more cars, appliances and mattresses out of the local forests than I want to think about.

It isn't the people in general, it's those people who never learn and do it over and over again that are the problem. They work cheap, but then they just haul the trash out into the forest or desert and dump it.

Once you get out of the urban areas and away from the asphalt ribbons, it isn't so bad.

[skyounkin]

5. Americans are more optimistic

With EVERYTHING under Obama.

It's not like he had big shoes to fill when he got into office. Chirst all he had to do was talk in complete sentences and not grope any foreign leaders and of course we are more optimistic.

[emmadoggy]

6. Pfft.

"The poll also showed a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence."

In other words, it's not so much that they think Obama has done great things on this issue, as much as they think everything is hunky-dory and there's nothing to worry about. Science-schmience, who needs it?:sarcasm:

This poll is not good news.

[NecklyTyler]

7. I would be more optimistic if I saw an "Apollo Program" to develop clean, renewable energy

What we need is for our leaders to know we support bold action on climate and energy, including a cap on carbon pollution. Capping carbon pollution will ignite the transition to clean energy, end our dependence on dirty fossil fuels, and put America on a path toward economic recovery. An 'Apollo Program' for research and development of alternative energy sources will create tens of thousands of good-paying American jobs that can’t be shipped overseas.

The climate crisis can’t wait

[Mithreal]

9. +1 The marketeers have pulled one over on the American people.

I concur.

[Duende azul]

15. That cartoon is worth it's own OP:

[Mithreal]

18. I thought it was a good one too.

Glad you enjoyed it.

:hi:

[Lorien]

16. Indeed. But Obama has more of an interest in that oxymoron "clean coal"

He won't protect wolves or Polar bears either, so I'm not at all impressed. Bush was worse, but Obama is just the lesser of evils imho.

[arcadian]

10. What? Why?

I've seen nothing to indicate this, unless you count a photo op to the Grand Canyon.

[truthisfreedom]

11. Silly article. Climate change is inevitable.

Obama's said many times that we need to address this situation, and he's putting more into developing non-carbon-based energy technology than any President we've ever had.

Silly, silly article.

[Mithreal]

12. Comparing him to other Presidents isn't very persuasive

I want to help your argument along. Compare the US to what other first world nations are doing, especially the ones that are held up as models, then you could gain some traction in making a comparative argument.

It's similar to the HCR debate in this way.

[pscot]

13. Good heavens, why?

Nothing much has changed, except at the margins. Kyoto is dead. Copenhagen was a farce. We continue to spew ever increasing amounts of carbon into the air. Glaciers are crumbling from Greenland to the Hindu Kush. Permafrost is sinking into a methane miasma. Fish stocks are collapsing as the oceans succumb to dead zones and toxic trash, and the morons console themselves with the belief that science has got it wrong? Incredible.

[Lorien]

17. Advertising. nt

[Jefferson23]

14. Of course he polls well here, we had 8 years of Mr. Death and Mr. Destruction to wreck havoc.