Nearly three-quarters of Americans see weather disasters, like Hurricane Dorian, worsening and most of them blame global warming to some extent, a new poll finds. And scientists say they’re right. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey shows 72% of Americans think catastrophic weather is more severe, while […] Read more »
American Voters Support Climate Action
Americans are concerned about climate change and support policies to reduce carbon pollution and protect Americans from climate impacts, according to a new survey of registered voters in the United States. Voters support a broad range of policies that would transition the United States from fossil fuels to renewable energy […] Read more »
Postal Service Still Americans’ Favorite Federal Agency
Americans are maintaining a mostly positive view of the job each of eight different high-profile federal departments and agencies is doing, out of 13 such entities measured in a new Gallup poll. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) remains the top-rated agency, with 74% saying it is doing an “excellent” or […] Read more »
‘Magic moment’: Climate rises to the top for Democrats and gets a big new push
Climate change has recently shot to the top of polls of issues that Democratic voters care about in the presidential primary, rivaling for the first time longstanding bread-and-butter topics like health care — and a leading environmental group has plans to keep it that way. … “Health care and the […] Read more »
Many Americans think that climate-change deniers ‘get what they deserve’ when disasters strike
… Americans in earlier decades were motivated to participate in politics largely by having strong and positive attachments to their own political party. That’s no longer true. Today’s voters are driven instead by what political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster have called “negative partisanship”: Democrats loathe Republicans, and Republicans […] Read more »
AP-NORC Poll: Disasters influence thinking on climate change
When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll. … The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago finds 74 percent of […] Read more »