Toplines - Environment - April 3-4, 2008

Toplines: Environment
Survey of 1,000 Adults

April 3-4, 2008

1* How would you rate the job that the federal government has done protecting the environment?

8% Excellent
21% Good

32% Fair

33% Poor

5% Not sure

2* Is Al Gore an expert on Global Warming?

31% Yes

43% No
26% Not sure

3* How serious a problem is Global Warming?

47% Very serious

26% Somewhat serious

16% Not very serious

8% Not at all serious

4% Not sure

4* Is Global Warming caused primarily by human activity or by long term planetary trends?

47% Human activity

34% Long term planetary trends

8% Some other reason

11% Not Sure

5* Is there a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection?

42% Yes

29% No
29% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence