Washington (AP) – Matt Ries only lived in Florida for three years, but everyone told him last summer that he was unusually scorching. Three hurricanes followed in a close episode. Then the temperatures fell below freezing this winter, and the snow covered part of the state.
For Ries, 29, a Ohio, who came from Tampa, was wearing the extreme weather – including the bitter chilly – all the license plates of climate change.
“It is only obvious to me,” said Ries, project manager of an environmental company and self -described conservative independence. “Things change pretty drastic; Only extreme weather in the whole country and in the world. … I think people accelerate this process. “
About 8 out of 10 US-growing gave to have experienced extreme weather in recent years. This is based on a novel survey by the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research.
Under the information that was stern colds of extreme weather, about three quarters heard that climate change is at least a partial cause of these events. This indicates that many understand that global warming can create an unstable atmosphere that makes it more often escaped from the Arctic to the south.
The middle west are most likely the main load of the chilly weather. In the past five years, around 7 out of 10 adults who live in the middle west, compared to half of the residents of the south and the northeastern and about a third of those in the west, have in the survey.
“It is contragulator to think: ‘Oh gee, it’s really cold. That probably has something to do with global warming, ”said Liane Golightly-Kissner from Delaware, Ohio, north of Columbus, who believes that climate change affects many weather extremes.
Golightly-Kissner, 38, said it was so chilly this winter that the schools were closed and her family dripped taps to prevent burst pipes. She remembers an extremely chilly day when she was a child in Michigan, but she says that now it seems to happen more often and for several days.
The survey also showed that only about a quarter of US growers believe that climate change so far has had a major impact on their lives, about 4 out of 10 believes that this in their life-even on their health, their local air quality and the availability of water. About half of the adults under the age of 30 believe that climate change will influence them personally.
About 7 out of 10 US -growing beliefs that climate change takes place, and they believe much more often that it has or will have a great influence on them than those who say that climate change does not take place.
The Americans catch up, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale program for climate change communication, who writes a combination of media reporting, political leaders and public concerns that creates a “symbiotic relationship”.
“We have seen awareness among the American population that climate change affects them here and now”, although many still see it as a distant problem that their grandchildren have to worry about, he said.
Rosiland Lathan, 60, from Minden, Louisiana, said she was a creditor because it looks like that,
This winter, she said, there were in the teenage and 20s temperature temperatures, while it became “real, real” in front of a few summers with heights in the 100s.
“It’s usually hot in Louisiana, but not so hot,” said Lathan.
Hurricane, forest fires and other natural disasters, such as the devastating fires in Southern California, are also concerned that climate change could lead to higher premiums and energy costs for household costs.
Approximately 6 out of 10 US-growing people are “extreme” or “very” concerned about the enhance in real estate insurance premiums, and a little more than half are concerned about the effects of climate change on energy costs, according to the AP-NORC survey. About half are “extreme” or “very” that climate change increases the costs for local rescue workers and the infrastructure costs for the government. Republicans are less concerned than democrats and independent.
The survey also showed broad support for a number of measures to exploit people who live in areas, more susceptible to extreme weather and natural disasters, with the exception of the restriction of novel buildings in these communities.
About 6 out of 10 US -growing stated that they provide “something” or “strong” for the money for the residents of money to assist them rebuild in the same community after the strike of the disasters, while similar shares support support to make the ownership of residents more resistant to natural disasters and that people who cannot take out private insurance companies. About a quarter of the Americans of these proposals neither favor nor oppose these suggestions, while about 1 of 10 “something” or “strong” is opposed.
When it comes to restricting the novel building, the opinion is more shared. About 4 out of 10 “something” or “strong” prefer the restriction of the novel buildings in areas that are particularly susceptible to natural disasters.
Golightly-Kissner said she believes that there should be restrictions or harder building standards in areas at risk of disaster.
“These extreme weather conditions, they don’t go anywhere, and it would be hybris for us to continue in the same way,” she said. “I think we have to change. We have to look into the future and what the best way is to keep our lives together when this happens again. Because it really is not a question of whether it is, when. “
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Webber reported Fenton, Michigan. ___
The AP-NORC survey of 1,112 adults was carried out from February 6 to 10 using a sample from the probability base of NORC, which is designed as representative of the US population. The sales edge for adults in total is plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. ___
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