What’s remarkable here is not the report – we just passed the Warmest November globally – but who’s doing the reporting – WBAY in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Implications for 2024 election, given Wisconsin’s battle ground status. I keep asking Republicans how they think climate denial plays out for them in the future, and have not gotten a good answer.
Most people know climate change is real, but then most care far more about other things than climate change, which currently ranks in 11th place as a top national concern in a recent Pew poll:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/21/inflation-health-costs-partisan-cooperation-among-the-nations-top-problems/
That’s the problem – Democrats may be far ahead in representing the issue, but it’s still a relatively minor issue for most voters, who care more about immigration, inflation, or whatever else is playing as the hot button issue of the day in the media.
We’ll start treating climate change as a real top priority far too late due to the lag from thermal inertia in climate change and because humans are remarkably poor at judging actual threats from manufactured ones. Sorry – it’s all bad news, but is what it is. Only way to combat it is to keep talking about it, though.