Democratic Primary Voters Increasingly Worried About Climate Change

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Democratic Primary Voters Increasingly Worried About Climate Change

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February 27, 202012:07 PM ET



As Super Tuesday approaches, Denver resident KSue Anderson can't stop thinking about climate change. Between 2014 and 2019, the number of Americans alarmed about climate change nearly tripled according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.


Denver resident KSue Anderson is a lifelong Democrat who has usually chosen candidates based on economic or social justice issues. But as Super Tuesday approaches this presidential election year, the 80-year-old undecided voter can't stop thinking about climate change.

"The winters are warmer than they used to be," she says. "We don't get as much snow as we used to. And when we get it, it comes in huge things."

Young people have gotten a lot of media attention for their climate activism. But they're just one face of a voting block that has grown more worried since the Trump administration pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and began rolling back environmental protections.

"I'm extremely concerned," Anderson says.

Polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada all showed climate change, along with health care, near the top of the list of concerns for primary and caucus voters.

Between 2014 and 2019, the number of Americans alarmed about climate change nearly tripled, according to the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The Pew Research Center notes a similar recent rise in concern, mostly among Democrats, but also Republican millennials and some independents.

"More than a decade ago, climate change seemed far away, and it seemed distant from Americans' everyday experience. That's not so much anymore," says Cary Funk, director of science and society research at Pew........................

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