71% of people surveyed said the conditions they experience where they live have affected their thoughts on the topic.
Licking their finger and putting it into the air.
Bad weather = climate change. Brilliant.
When it comes to their views on climate change, Americans are looking at natural disasters and their local weather, according to a new poll.
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The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago finds 74 percent of Americans say extreme weather in the past five years — hurricanes, droughts, floods and heat waves — has influenced their opinions about climate change. That includes half of Americans who say these recent events have influenced their thinking a great deal or a lot.
About as many, 71 percent, said the weather they experience daily in their own areas has influenced their thinking about climate change science.