{"id":327557,"date":"2024-05-08T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327557"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:14:10","slug":"young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327557","title":{"rendered":"Young adults losing the climate faith in the US, and only one third of voters think the IPCC experts are right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good news: despite 2023 being the hottest year since Homo Erectus,<\/em> there was a 17% fall in the number of 18 to 34 year olds who call \u201cClimate change\u201d  a very serious problem. Even though there were hottest-ever-headlines month after month, the punters lost the faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one is cracking champagne, because 50% of young adults still tell pollsters they think it is a \u201cvery serious problem\u201d. But when all is said and done, at least half the generation that was drip-fed the dogma since kindergarten, can not only see through the catastrophism but they are brave enough to tell a pollster that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the most part, after a few hot El Nino years, \u201cclimate fear\u201d is back where it was in 2016 or so. Most people still want the government to solve the weather with someone else\u2019s money. But where younger people were once much more enthusiastic about a Big Government fix than older people were, now that gap is almost closed. What was a 21% difference between those age groups is now only 2%. That\u2019s a whopping fall in faith in the government to do something useful, or probably, a recognition that whatever the government does, it will cost too much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looks like young adults are learning to be cynical adults faster?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Monmouth university group polled 804 people in late April:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C<\/a>limate Change Concerns Dip<\/a>:  Younger adults express less urgency than in prior polls<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The percentage of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 who see climate change as a very serious problem has fallen by 17 points in the past three years (50%, down from 67% in 2021), compared with smaller declines among those who are 35 to 54 years old (44%, down from 48%) and those age 55 and older (44%, down from 54%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But what does \u201ca very serious problem\u201d even mean?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Anyone can say \u201cit\u2019s serious\u201d but only 1 in 6 people can even be bothered pretending to a pollster that climate change influences their vote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Monmouth poll released last month<\/a> found only 15% of voters view climate change as a determinative issue in how they will vote in the 2024 presidential election, ranking far lower than inflation, immigration, and abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People used to lie to pollsters and say they cared and it would affect their vote, but now most don\u2019t even pretend. In 2019 in the UK two-thirds of people agreed climate was the biggest issue facing humankind. The Guardian<\/em> writers were sure that climate change would determine how most of the voters would vote,<\/a> but the party promising to give them better weather lost in a landslide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015, when nearly half of US voters said climate was a \u201cvery serious problem\u201d, other surveys showed only 3% ranked climate change as the most important issue<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a twenty-something really believed the Antarctic ice cap was about to melt, wouldn\u2019t it rate as a voting issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s be clear, year after year, we see the same results. The voters don\u2019t want to spend money on climate change<\/a> and won\u2019t change their vote, but the politicians act as though their career depends upon it, and the public are \u201cdemanding action\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of surveys like this, we know the politicians know the voters don\u2019t care, but they go and force climate action on the voters anyway. Who are they really working for? Their donors? The people who give them \u201cjobs\u201d after they leave office, or the people who employ their children now? Or are they working to appease \u201cthe media\u201d \u2014 cowed into submission because someone might call them a denier if they don\u2019t grovel before the Climate Demi-God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year a survey showed more then half of the US are wondering the same question and agree that the people who really \u201crun\u201d the country are not known to voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fully 92% of Democrat voters says they think climate change is real. (What else could they say, they\u2019d be excommunicated from friends and family if they said anything else.)  Only 51% of Republicans tell pollsters they think climate change is real. But imagine how fast that would plummet if skeptical professors were interviewed on TV, and half of Republican politicians spoke for half the Republican voters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only a third of voters agree with the UN Experts that climate change is mainly a human driven thing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Despite the UN experts being 97% certain, only one third of voters completely agree with them. That\u2019s really quite astounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public opinion remains mixed on the degree to which human behavior contributes to change in the climate. Just over one-third (34%) say climate change is caused mainly by human activity<\/strong> while 31% say human activity and natural changes in the environment play equal roles. Another 7% put climate change down mainly to natural causes, with the remainder saying climate change is not happening (23%) or are not sure if it is happening (4%). Just over half of Americans (51%) say there is still time to prevent the worst effects of climate change while just 17% say it is too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After thirty years of scientific and media purity, only one third think climate change is \u201cmostly human\u201d. Another third think the UN must be exaggerating, and the last third know the UN is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFERENCE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Monmouth University poll, Climate Change Concerns Dip<\/a>, May 6th, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good news: despite 2023 being the hottest year since\u00a0Homo Erectus,\u00a0there was a 17% fall in the number of 18 to 34 year olds who call \u201cClimate change\u201d\u00a0 a very serious problem. 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