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By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred BackusAhead of the U.N. Climate Summit at the United Nations this week, most Americans say global warming is having a serious impact now or will in the future, and 5 stanley cup 4 percent think it is mostly caused by human activity -- the highest percentage in CBS News/ stanley cup becher New York Times Polls.Forty-six percent say global warming is a problem that is having a serious impact now, while another 28 percent think it will have a serious impact sometime in the future. About a quarter don t think global warming will have a serious impact at all. These views have changed little in recent years. On a more personal level, 57 percent of Americans don t think global warming will be a serious threat to them during their lifetime, but four in 10 think it will. Perhaps because they are likely to have more years ahead of them, 50 percent of Americans under age 30 think global warming will pose a serious threat to them in their lifetime, compared to 40 percent of those w stanley cup ho are older - but even younger Americans are divided in their opinions.There are partisan differences too. Three in four Republicans don t feel global warming will be a threat to them personally, but 56 percent of Democrats disagree. When asked about the primary cause of global warming, 54 percent of Americans think it is the result of human activity. Another 31 percent think it is due to natural fluctuations in the e Veqh Is Obama Too Perfect
Working to get the last Senate votes for his economic recovery plan, President Barack Obama reached out Wednesday to his old rival, Sen. John McCain, even as he warned Republicans stanley thermos against making perfect the enemy of stanley canada the essential. At a White House signing ceremony, Obama and Democrats savored a long-sought victory with passage of legislation to expand health care benefits for millions of working class children. But the more than stanley cup $900 billion stimulus bill in the Senate was the president s chief focus, as Republicans, including McCain, began rolling out alternatives tilted more to tax cuts and housing. The stark reality is we need to finish this bill, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. on the floor Wednesday night. Behind-the-scenes there was growing pressure to cobble together a package of spending reductions that would clear the way for passage late Thursday or Friday. I talked to him this morning, McCain said of his phone call from Obama. We d like to negotiate, we d like to sit down and try to work something out that would be truly job creating. It was Obama who reached out to the Arizona Republican, who has been aggressively attacking the president s initiative. Their discussion covered other topics as well, McCain said, but dovetails with other efforts by Obama, including a set of remarkable face-to-face meetings Thursday with swing senators-alone without any aides present. In McCain s case, his own $421