Democrats and Republicans deeply divided on extreme weather, Post-UMD poll finds

[Zorro]

Partisans remain split on climate change contributing to more weather disasters, and whether their weather is getting more extreme

Nearly 150 million Americans were under heat alerts Tuesday, after July marked the planet’s hottest month on record. Devastating downpours dumped two months of rain on Vermont in two days. Smoke from Canadian wildfires choked East Coast skies, causing the worst air quality on record for some locations. And Hawaii is reeling from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century.

Yet while there is wide public concern over extreme weather, Americans are deeply divided — along partisan lines — on whether climate change is helping to drive these events, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

The survey was conducted from mid- to late July, at the height of some of the hottest days the Earth has experienced in over 100,000 years. Not surprisingly, a large majority of U.S. adults — 74 percent — say they’ve experienced extremely hot days in the past five years.

But when asked if they think climate change is a major factor in those extremely hot days, 35 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say it is, compared with 85 percent of those who lean Democratic. Overall, 63 percent of Americans who experienced extremely hot days say climate change is a major factor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/23/extreme-weather-climate-change-poll/

[JudyM]

1. More noteworthy excerpts

37 percent of Republican-leaning adults say extreme weather is becoming more severe — ticking down from 42 percent in 2019.

Ticking down. And they accuse Dems and scientists of politicization. What other reason than politicization could account for that drop among them? Also, it’s a good bet that the drop is greater if R-leaning independents are removed from the count.
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Nine in 10 Democrats expect that their area will be impacted by climate change in the next 20 years, compared with 37 percent of Republicans.

They’re in for a rude awakening.

[BlueWavePsych]

2. K&R

[Wonder Why]

3. Simple. One side says Climate Change. The other says Hunter Laptop. Guess which is which!

[Skittles]

4. shows who lives in reality and who does not

it's not like we didn't already know repukes live under a rock

[czarjak]

5. There they go. Again.

Common thread on any argument: Someone is right, someone is wrong. Or you're both wrong. Both-sides can't be right. Sorry, Republicans, we'd love for you to be correct sometime.