From Scripps Howard via the Albuquerque Tribune:
Two-thirds of Americans are convinced global warming is a serious problem even before today’s opening of “The Day After Tomorrow,” the disaster film with a plot based on an abrupt change in Earth’s climate, according to a Yale University poll released Thursday.
In a national survey of 1,000 adults conducted by the polling firm Global Strategy Group, 70 percent of Americans said they consider global warming to be a “very serious” or “somewhat serious” problem.
Only 20 percent said they do not consider global warming to be a serious problem.
A majority of Americans, 55 percent, also believe that “the scientific evidence is in” with regard to global warming, the poll found.
There is, however, a clear political gap on the issue. A majority of Democrats, 66 percent, and independents, 55 percent, said they want action to address the problem. But only 44 percent of Republican women and 35 percent of Republican men share that view.