The numbers are getting closer to the 50% mark but it's surprising it's taken this long to get here. Even if you don't accept the science of climate change, it looks like a no-brainer since the rest of the world believes it's an issue. Who really isn't interested in leading business into an emerging market that is worth billions of dollars, if not trillions? As an American abroad, it looks un-American to ignore such an opportunity, but that's what the Republicans have done to the country.
More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It's a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama's economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill jobs.
In an Associated Press-Stanford University poll, 40 percent said U.S. action to slow global warming in the future would create jobs. Slightly more, 46 percent, said it would boost the economy.
By contrast, less than a third said curbing climate change would hurt the economy and result in fewer jobs, a message Republican members of Congress plan to take to an international global warming conference in Copenhagen this week.
