…and we are suppose to reach these people with the truth?
By: Scripps News StaffPosted at 7:57 PM, Sep 25, 2023 and last updated 7:58 PM, Sep 25, 2023
As a record-setting summer comes to a close, nearly nine out of ten Americans say they're feeling the direct effects of the changing climate, according to a new Associated Press/NORC poll.
According to the poll, 87% of adults say they've gone through an extreme weather event such as severe heat, drought, hurricanes or winter storms in the last five years. Three quarters of the public had such an experience just in the last few months.
Extreme heat was a standout event, with 74% of respondents saying in September they'd gone through it in the last five years. That figure was up from 55% of respondents just three months earlier, in April of 2023.
75% of respondents said they believed climate change played at least some role in the events they'd experienced.
Meanwhile, the proportion of people who believe climate change is happening remained roughly constant compared to earlier polling, at 74%.
https://www.ksby.com/more-americans-are-feeling-the-direct-effects-of-climate-change