Polling Shows 60% Of NC Voters Are Worried About Global Warming. Huh, I Wonder Why . . . .

[hatrack]

A new poll conducted at the end of September, just weeks after Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina, found that 60 percent of voters in the state are worried about climate change and many want officials to do something about it.

The survey was conducted by Nexus Polling, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. It asked 734 registered voters between September 28 and October 1, among other questions, whether they thought elected officials should be doing more to address extreme weather events.

With climate change, hurricanes are becoming more intense, slower, and wetter. That trend was evident when Florence hit the Carolinas last month and became the second wettest storm the U.S. has experienced in 70s years. (The wettest storm was last year’s Hurricane Harvey.)

In response to the survey, 42 percent of registered Republicans said elected officials should do more to address these types of extreme weather events while 72 percent of registered Democrats said more needs to be done.

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https://thinkprogress.org/poll-north-carolina-voters-climate-change-florence-79ed3f59f78e/

[magicarpet]

1. Well,... aren't they selfish,... What about petrol profits ?

[GemDigger]

2. I bet their great awakening all happened in the past couple of weeks.

[NickB79]

3. They'll take their insurance payments and rebuild in the same damn places

And forget all about the threat of climate change. Until the next hurricane.