Pollster Mallory Newall on Monday said that climate change is often presented as a global issue, rather than a domestic issue, in polls because it impacts the entire world.
“When you look at the Paris climate accords, for one, there are a lot of world leaders in a lot of countries talking about how climate change is a global issue,” Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs, told Hill.TV’s Joe Concha on “What America’s Thinking.”
Newall was responding to a question from Concha on why global warming was presented as a foreign policy issue in various polls.
“Ipsos did a poll on behalf of the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers campaign earlier this year, and we asked youth and adults about the issues in their country. This was a 15-country poll,” she continued.
“We asked about climate change because it is often presented on the global level as something that does impact the entire world,” she said. “But what you’re seeing here with the president pulling out of the Paris climate accords, and not even all Americans agreeing what the cause of climate change is, that we have a lot of work to do here at home, separately from this being a global issue.”
Newall was responding to a Pew Research Center survey released last month, which asked if climate change should be the top foreign policy issue.
Sixty-four percent of Democrats said climate change should be the highest foreign policy priority in that poll, while 22 percent of Republicans said the same.
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