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Exclusive global warming poll: The buck stops here

By Peter Aldhous

20 June 2007

Was it Al Gore’s movie? Or is it the legacy of hurricane Katrina and a growing realisation that the US is as vulnerable as anyone to extremes of weather and climate? Whatever the explanation, Americans are growing more worried about global warming. According to a recent poll, climate change now looms larger than any other environmental threat in the mind of the American public. Asked in April to name the world’s biggest environmental problem, – double the figure from just a year before.…

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