The voter passionately motivated by climate change was once something of an anomaly. But that is changing as President Donald Trump has systematically unraveled the nation’s environmental regulations at the same time that Americans have witnessed a series of climate-related crises: fires in the Amazon, hurricanes that churn with increasing fury and record-shattering temperatures and weather events across the US. …
Jon Krosnick, a political science and communications professor at Stanford University who directs the Political Psychology Research Group, notes that while no single issue dominates the psyche of American voters, his research shows that climate change is becoming a bigger motivator for a larger group of people.
Krosnick said 2018 was the year in which the percent of Americans who think global warming is extremely important hit 20%, according to research conducted by the Political Psychology Research Group at Stanford University. In 1997, that number was only 9%, according to the group’s research. CONT.
Maeve Reston, CNN