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Most Business Execs are Climate Change Skeptics
Most Business Execs are Climate Change Skeptics
The world’s leading climate scientists say global warming has begun, and that it is 90% certain it is brought on by human activities.
The six-page survey was mailed to 5,000 senior executives of businesses throughout Wisconsin this spring, and gathered 340 responses, mostly from presidents and chief executive officers.
Most Wisconsin business executives are skeptical about climate change science, but still favor energy conservation and alternative energy use, according to a survey released by the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp. (WECC).
The world’s leading climate scientists say global warming has begun, and that it is 90% certain it is brought on by human activities.
The six-page survey was mailed to 5,000 senior executives of businesses throughout Wisconsin this spring, and gathered 340 responses, mostly from presidents and chief executive officers.
You can download a copy of the 23-page report at publicpolicyforum.org. Most respondents said that govern ment-enacted global warming policies are bad for business and the economy.
Kathy Kuntz, WECC’s director of ener gy programs, sees a silver lining in the survey results—that most businesses still support energy-efficiency measures.
“The main takeaway from the survey is that we don’t need to retool our mes sage to bring Wisconsin businesses on board when it comes to reducing the state’s carbon footprint,” she said. “They are still motivated by the business advan tages of energy efficiencies, and that’s what we need to keep talking about.”
Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp. is a nonprofit organization that promotes energy initiatives that benefit consumers, businesses and policy-makers.
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