More Americans Than Ever Accept Validity Of Climate Science, Warming Threat, Except For Republicans

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More Americans than ever say global warming is now a primary danger. The share of US adults calling climate change a “major threat” to the country’s well-being rose from 40% in 2013 to 57% in 2019, according to a July poll by the Pew Research Center.

Yet almost none of that change is happening inside the Republican party. Pew asked a sample of 1,502 adults between July 10-15, 2019. Conservatives and moderates saw only a slight increase in those who consider climate change a major threat—5% and 9% respectively. However, Pew noted that this was not statistically significant since the margin of error for each political cohort of about 8% or less.

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Urgent climate action seems unlikely unless Democrats sweep the 2020 election, wresting away control of the Senate and White House, or a sea change occurs among the Republican electorate. Younger voters, no matter their political affiliation, will lead this change, if it happens. Many have grown up in a world without a single month of below-average temperature, reports The New York Times. Today, roughly 60% of Republicans between the age of 23 and 38 say the US is feeling the effects of climate change, twice the number of those over age 52 and nearly three-quarters of Republicans under 30 disapprove of Trump approach to global warming, according to a Harvard University survey (pdf).

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-americans-ever-climate-major-180616470.html

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1. Everything is political to Republicans

They don’t get that climate change, gun violence, abortion, etc are not political, but human realities.

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2. Republicans are now Cult followers

The conservative movement is now much similar to a cult movement devoid of critical thinking. But at the same time there is very little information on climate change and the degradation of our environment coming from our so-called main street media. Most of the few bits of information coming from CNN and MSNBC tends to be reactionary and shallow and sometimes even give its viewers the impression climate is still debatable. Why for example in states that are under democrats control the use of single use plastic bags still allowed. This halfhearted approach could very well be the reason why very little progress have been achieved to curb the growth of our carbon foot print.