An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, a new poll shows.
Adriana Moreno said she feels like she’s been talking about climate change for years, but it’s only recently that the 22-year-old high school teacher has noticed her older family members bringing up the issue more and more – "almost every time I see them," said Moreno, a Democrat in New York.
Overall, about 8 in 10 U.S. adults say that in the past five years they have personally felt the effects of extreme weather, such as extreme heat or drought, according to the poll. Most of them – 54% of the public overall – say what they experienced was at least partly a result of climate change. They’re not wrong, said the head of the federal agency overseeing weather and climate issues.
These types of weather events hit the nation on average once every 82 days in the 1980s, but are now smacking the country at a rate of slightly more than once every two weeks, Spinrad said.FILE - The boat ramp at Bullfrog Marina no longer extends into the water at Lake Powell during to low levels at the lake caused by climate change and drought that reduced the flow of the Colorado River on April 15, 2023 in Lake Powell, Utah.
"Hearing about the things like the fires and seeing the hills around here being brown and not getting any rain for three, four, five months in a row ... it’s not something I’d ever thought of anywhere else because I’ve never been in such extreme drought," the 65-year-old Republican retiree said. Then, "when we finally do get rain, it’s extreme.
The poll finds people don’t tend to talk about climate change with people they outright disagree with on the issue. Among those who talk with family and friends, about half say they mostly agree with those they talk to, while most of the remainder say they tend to equally agree and disagree.
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