Posted on 04/23/2023 6:21:46 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows, and most of them attribute that to climate change.
Yet even as many across the country marked Earth Day on Saturday, the poll shows relatively few say they feel motivated when they talk about the issue.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll findings echo growing evidence that many individuals question their own role in combating climate change. Still, it suggests people are paying attention.
About half of U.S. adults say they grew more concerned about the changing climate in the past year, and a growing number say they are talking about it.
Adriana Moreno said she feels like she's been talking about climate change for years, but it's only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher noticed older family members bringing up the issue more — "almost every time I see them," said Moreno, a Democrat in New York.
Her family on the East Coast talks about how the seasons have changed, while her family in El Salvador talks about how poorly some crops on their farm are faring. After years of hearing about Moreno's own interest in the issue, her parents became more interested.
It's not that they didn't believe in climate change before, Moreno said, but it was "out of sight, out of mind."
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“The poll finds people don’t tend to talk about climate change with people they outright disagree with on the issue. Among those who talk with family and friends, about half say they mostly agree with those they talk to, while most of the remainder say they tend to equally agree and disagree.
A clear majority say they learned new information in a conversation on climate change, but only 19% of U.S. adults say their minds were changed because of such a conversation.”
People are now scared of the weather.
If everyone is experiencing it....doesn’t that make it a normal natural phenomenon?
We had a mean black cloud pass over yesterday. So scary.
“An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they recently experienced an extreme weather event”
We had a fairly strong thunderstorm a couple of nights ago. It was loud enough to wake me up. Am I now losing sleep because of climate change?
In other news, a majority of young children polled say they recently experienced monsters lurking under their beds.
The 22-year-old high school teacher basically says, “I’ve been warning people about this for years.”
My God. This level of expertise is staggering.
Can you say over exaggerate ,LOL
If people are concerned about the “extreme” weather today, wait until they are literally freezing or sweltering in their darkened homes, their EV sitting useless and are starving because of Bidens war on energy.
“My God. This level of expertise is staggering.”
LOL! :)
Everyone knows that until Trump got elected, climate NEVER changed!
If you listen to the MSM, that would be the impression you would get. In Boise, I wouldn’t call it extreme, but for the last few years we’ve had an earlier winter and a later spring.
The hurricane was Hugo (1989), and the first tornado was a year or two before that.
"Climate change" had nothing to do with any of it. It was just weather.
Here in PA we all breathed sighs of relief that we didn’t have one day of shoveling snow all winter. Fewer people froze to death, had heart attacks, slip-and-falls, and traffic accidents, or lost their homes due to electrical fires and improperly operated heating devices.
The only downside is that more people got traffic tickets. Seems that police prefer to stop you on warm dry days.
We had lightening and thunder yesterday. Thought we are gonna die.
Then the sun came out.
They could voluntarily end the use of fossil fuels for themselves. No one is stopping them.
Let’s see how they do!
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