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Questions - Heartland Institute: Climate Change - November 13-14, 2019

Voters Blame Humans for Climate Change But Spare Air Travel, Meat Consumption
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National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted November 13-14, 2019
By The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports

 

1* How likely is it that climate change will be catastrophic for humans, plants and animals?

 

2* Is climate change caused primarily by human activity or by long-term planetary trends?

 

3* Should federal or state governments punish with fines or jail time fossil-fuel business owners and/or executives? (answered only by those who said climate change was caused by human activity – 477 voters)

 

4* Should federal or state governments require people to engage in activities that will lower carbon-dioxide emissions? (answered only by those who said climate change was caused by human activity – 477 voters)

 

5* Should federal or state governments require people to limit their air travel to help stop climate change? (answered only by those who said climate change was caused by human activity – 477 voters)

 

6* Should federal or state governments require people to limit their consumption of meat to help stop climate change? (answered only by those who said climate change was caused by human activity – 477 voters)

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence, except questions 3-6 which have a margin of sampling error of +/-4.5%.