Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Pew Research has revealed US climate concern is soaring – but most of the growth in concern has been amongst Democrats.
More Americans see climate change as a priority, but Democrats are much more concerned than Republicans
BY BRIAN KENNEDY AND COURTNEY JOHNSON
FEBRUARY 28, 2020Climate change has emerged as a key issue in the 2020 Democratic primary season. Candidates are debating how best to address the subject, which many Americans see as a growing national priority. As 14 states and one territory prepare to hold primaries or caucuses on Super Tuesday, here’s a look at how Democrats see climate change – and how their views differ from those of Republicans.
1A growing share of Americans say addressing climate change should be a top priority for the president and Congress, but most of the change has come among Democrats. Over the past four years, the share of Americans who say dealing with global climate change should be a top priority has increased from 38% to 52%. Among Democrats and independents who lean to the Democratic Party, 78% say climate change should be a top priority, up 22 percentage points since 2016. But among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, there has been no statistically significant increase. Democrats are more than three times as likely as Republicans to say dealing with climate change should be a top priority (78% vs. 21%).
The share of Americans who say global climate change is a major threat to the well-being of the United States has also increased in recent years. But on this question too, the rise in concern has come primarily among Democrats, regardless of ideology. Among both moderate and conservative Republicans there has been no statistically significant change since 2013.
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Read more: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/28/more-americans-see-climate-change-as-a-priority-but-democrats-are-much-more-concerned-than-republicans/ft_2020-02-28_climatechange_01/
Other surveys which compare priorities tend to suggest people place a much higher priority on prosperity and safety – politicians who bet everything on climate policy tend to lose badly.
It is puzzling that people who claim to believe the global warming is a serious threat also tend to vehemently oppose nuclear power. A drowning person doesn’t care whether the boat which saves them is a sailboat or a diesel trawler, so you have to wonder why people who believe climate change is a top priority threat to the world think opposing the only scalable zero carbon energy source which has strong support from Republicans is a higher priority.
If Democrats decided overnight to switch to supporting nuclear power, a bipartisan bill for massive government sponsored expansion of the USA’s nuclear fleet, like the 1970s French nuclear expansion, would sail through all levels of the US government.
The French nuclear experiment delivered – France still has one of the lowest carbon footprints per capita in the industrialised world, 5.0 tons per capita per annum, vs the USA’s 17.75 tons per capita (2016 figures), mostly due to France’s overwhelming reliance on affordable, zero carbon nuclear power.
Perhaps Democrats who answer Pew surveys care more about defeating Republicans than they care about CO2 emissions.
Leftists will soon get a very rude awakening when CO2 levels continue to rise yet we experience 30+ years of global cooling when PDO and AMO ocean cycles both enter their respective 30-year cool cycles, and possible additional global cooling from a Grand Solar Minimum event which has already started…
Patience is a virtue…
Tick-tock, tick-tock…
“Over the past four years, the share of Americans who say dealing with global climate change should be a top priority has increased from 38% to 52%”
And what is the share of Americans who say that dealing with the global population bomb should be a top priority?
Or have they forgotten? Like they will also forget climate change down the road?
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/02/29/prophets-of-doom/
Democrats are losing everything and the level of desperation is becoming dangerous. Desperation leads to desperate actions, seldom rationalized.
I don’t believe that there are more than 10% of the US population that is sincerely concerned enough about the Climate to radically change their lives.
All the Socialist-leaning folls know that they are SUPPOSED to be fervent about the subject, but even they haven’t really thought things through or dropped their annual “Carbon” consumption more than a few pounds…by cutting their meat consumption a little…when they remember.
When people see “Climate” listed as a polling selection, many recall that they are supposed to be concerned about the climate…and respond accordingly. If “Climate” isn’t specifically listed in a poll, it gets NO MENTION.
Please remember that those Democrats that “believe” the climate should be a top priority ARE THE SAME PEOPLE who believe that the media is practicing journalism. The Media is enemy #1 because of the power they have to influence the stupid and the ignorant.
Even if 78% of Democrats say that combating “climate change” is a top priority, how many of them will want their taxes doubled or more to pay for pie-in-the-sky schemes to buy massive numbers of windmills, solar panels, and batteries?
Whenever the Democrats select their nominee for President, he or she will have to explain how much their anti-climate-change plan will cost, and who will pay for it, especially if President Trump asks the question during a debate. The costs are so staggering for such minimal “benefits” that many voters will likely decide that the status quo is just fine, thank you!
We saw this back in 2010, when Democrats controlled the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and they tried to impose “cap-and-trade” taxes on CO2 emissions. It passed the House, but so many coal-state Democrats opposed it in the Senate that it didn’t even get to a majority. Anything resembling the “Green New Deal” would probably meet a similar fate in 2021.
The bottom 50% of income earners pay less than 0.1% of all income taxes.
Not a lot of Democrat voters paying taxes in the first place.
Apparently over the past 2-3 years, articles have surfaced within medical journals concerning the cause and affect of non ending public and political chaos in the United States and how that affects patient health. It seems that Russia, Iran, North Korea, China and others have very sophisticated, deeply seeded in National Media and Internet operations that work endlessly creating misinformation that will create endless chaos concerning almost every topic including but not limited to Politics, Healthcare, Climate Change, STD’s. Gay & Lesbian issues, Gender Issues, Public School education, Immigration and many other topics. Extremely well educated men and women are involved and the intent is to destroy the United States.