As midterms approach, some voters say climate change is more important than inflation in the long term (only 8.29 years left)

Fox News ^ | 10/03/22 | Megan Myers

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MILWAUKEE - Most voters in Wisconsin who spoke with Fox News said addressing climate change is more important than curbing inflation ahead of the November midterm elections.

"Climate change is going to affect our children, our children's children," Heather, from Green Bay, said.

But Matt, from Milwaukee, said he cares more about lowering inflation as he feels the impact of price hikes every day.

"It comes out of my pocket," Matt said. "I pay for that, and it's easy for me to pick out."

Nearly 80% of Democratic Wisconsin voters said climate change was the most concerning issue, an August Marquette University poll found. Inflation, which nationally hit a 40-year record-high of 9.1% in June, ranked sixth.

Climate change is "only going to get worse if we don't act on it now," London, from Milwaukee, said.

But 91% of Republican voters polled in the Marquette survey said inflation was their top issue. They rated climate change last.

"I really don't care about climate change," Matt said. "It's normal for temperature to change."

But Christian, from Milwaukee, said Americans need to think about potentially drastic climate changes ahead in the next few decades.

"If it's already at 100 degrees it's just going to go up from that," Christian said.

U.S. cities reached record-high temperatures over the summer, ranking as the third-hottest season in history. The extreme heat the Pacific Northwest experienced was a once-in-10,000 years event and was driven by climate change, a UCLA researcher found.

[kelly4c]

You’d he surprised. I work with seemingly normal people who take it as a given that man made climate change is real. They scoff at anyone who would deny it.