Poll: U.S. need to address global warming

Published: Nov. 7, 2007 at 11:23 PM

NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A majority of people questioned in a new Harris Poll said the United States needs to take the lead in addressing global warming.

Seventy-one percent of the 1,052 U.S. adults polled last month said they believe current trends will lead to global warming and an increase in average temperatures.

The poll said 87 percent agreed with the statement that "since emerging countries such as India and China will soon pass the United States as the largest contributor of greenhouse gases, whatever is done to control these gases should be undertaken by almost all industrial countries";

Eighty-one percent said they believe "the United States needs to set the lead when it comes to controlling greenhouse gases and pollution."

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