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Survey: GOP voters see global warming problem
A majority of Republican voters in South Carolina believe global warming is occurring, but is a problem people can resolve, according to a new survey.
Ayres, McHenry and Associates surveyed 500 Republicans likely to vote in the 2008 presidential primary. It found most respondents support a cap on carbon emissions and incentives for companies to stay below the carbon pollution limit.
Carbon dioxide pollution from cars and factories is a major contributor to global warming, according to researchers.
Ayres, McHenry and Associates conducted the survey from Jan. 24-28 for Environmental Defense, a national conservation group that has spent the past year raising awareness of global warming in South Carolina and selected other states. The survey's margin of error is plus or minus 4.4 percent.
The Ayres company is helping Environmental Defense map strategy on climate change. Company principal Whit Ayres was once an advisor to Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell who held office from 1987-95.
"This says that a flat denial of global warming no longer has any credibility,'' Ayres said. "The debate now is over what we do about it.''
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