How are people coping with the heat? Going outside less and turning up the juice more. Most Americans report going outside less often and many are advising their family and kids to do the same amid soaring temperatures. And people are also upping their electricity use (and those bills) in order to cope. …
We continue to see differences by political party on the issue of climate change as we long have. Democrats are far more likely to see it as an urgent matter and have become more concerned about it amid record-high temperatures. Most Republicans, on the other hand, don’t think climate change needs to be addressed right away and haven’t become more concerned about it now.
Partisan differences also extend to perceptions of weather. Fewer Republicans than Democrats say they have experienced unusually high temperatures recently. CONTINUED
Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News
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