This is how many Americans say climate change affects them
Most Americans say climate change has hit them close to home, yet there are still many who don’t accept the degree that global warming is affecting the planet.
The Pew Research Center shared five previously published charts illustrating American attitudes toward global warming in honor of Earth Day on Monday. And while a majority of Americans in a 2018 survey said they’ve seen at least some impact of climate change where they live, that means almost four in 10 countered that it isn’t affecting their local area or their lives at all.
Most of them weren’t living on the coasts, however, which are the areas most vulnerable to the storms and floods that have been correlated with rising sea levels that have been worsened by carbon emissions. A 2016 study published in Nature Climate Change warned that more than 13 million Americans living in coastal communities could see their lives “disrupted” by sea-level rise resulting from climate change.
Indeed, among the Americans in the Pew report who said global warming has affected their local areas, 45% pointed to more frequent cases of extreme weather, including severe storms, droughts, floods and wildfires.Another Pew survey released earlier this year found that most U.S. adults say protecting the environment should be a priority for the president and Congress, and 44% say the same about dealing with global climate change, which has increased over the past decade.
Americans’ views on climate change appear to be shaped by their political views. Although roughly two-thirds of Americans complained that the federal government wasn’t doing enough to reduce global climate change in a 2018 Pew report, when broken out by political affiliation, only about three in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said policies to reduce climate change help the environment.
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