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'Alarm' over climate change in US doubles in five years
From the article:
Twenty-nine percent of respondents to the poll conducted last December by Yale and George Mason universities were in the alarmed category – an all-time high – and twice the percentage of those surveyed in 2013....
The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out of the Paris climate deal has fired up his base, while opponents have championed a “Green New Deal” that seeks to virtually eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade.
The decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out of the Paris climate deal has fired up his base, while opponents have championed a “Green New Deal” that seeks to virtually eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade.
To read more:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/12/alarm-over-climate-change-in-us-doubles-in-five-years.html
On one side, we have the GOP, which prefers to ignore the issue, or trivialize it.
And the Democrats are trying to deal with reality in the face of GOP refusal.