San Francisco leads the country in worrying about climate change, with 82.3% of adults expressing concerns over global warming.

Posted by Turkatron2020

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  1. On the West Coast all the dark green places are places where cooling air conditioning is not standard in homes/apartments. People remember how mild summers were for decades. They can feel the global warming directly.

  2. also live in california, and yeah ever since i was a kid there’s always been big movements for conserving energy, recycle, choose climate/environmentally healthy habits

    and we vote generally well on things that promote these behaviors

    just to then get told to kick rocks by most other states in this country

    edit for more context:

    >if you live near the oceans: school trips to see the marine life and understand how our actions have consequences

    >if you live near the dense forests: school trips to see the trees and ecosystem and understand how our actions have consequences

    >if you live near the desert: the ecosystem is explained to you and you can see how fragile it can be if thrown off, and that our actions have consequences

    from public school to college, we, for a few decades now, are asked to use recyclable bags, switch to paper straws (this one is still not liked ngl), go solar, go electric/hybrid car [with government incentives to offset cost + widespread charging availability in metros]

  3. Oha, is it any surprise that people in areas particularly affected by drought and fires are especially concerned? That’s the simplest sign of climate change.

    Tornadoes will affect the US more often and more violently. But I think most people think it has nothing to do with the change in the Gulf Stream, it has nothing to do with climate change. People take this for given.

  4. Used to live in the South Bay Area of LA without AC, but moved inland in 2008. The summer temps inland were a serious change from the mild temps closer to the coast. But whenever I pass by my old haunts in the south bay, I notice more and more houses have added AC.

  5. I wonder if this looks like any other map I’ve ever seen /s

    God it must be such a comfort to believe that people have just been making this up for hundreds of years.

  6. We should be worrying a lot more about climate change than trumpy right now, so depressing

  7. Looks like there are gunna be a whole lot of farms/agriculture in those purple areas in for a rude awakening. 

    Imagine your state being mainly known for farming and you’re not worrying about climate change.

  8. wow, it’s almost as if people who live on coastlines and witness rising sea levels, marine life die-off events, ever-increasing storm strength, climate volatility, and shoreline collapse are acutely aware of the threat of global warming.

  10. Uhh, they have some of the best data scientists. Duh, they don’t need opinions, they read the data

  12. As a Californian, the weather has changed dramatically in my short lifetime, for both northern and southern California. It is hotter, more humid, and more erratic weather-wise. Atmospheric river storms have become more frequent and more intense, and our drought times have become more prolonged and intense. The rainy season is starting later and later over time, and it is lasting longer into spring than previously.

  13. If you click on individual counties, it explains this is plus or minus the national average, which is then reported as 63%.

    So, nationally, 63% are worried about climate change, but not worried enough to vote for a black woman.

    Got it.

  14. Not surprising. Doesn’t the Embarcadero flood regularly anymore during king tides? That alone will give you a “shit, this is real” impression.

  15. I like how unconcerned KY is, given entire bourbon distilleries just flooded. Not to mention Helene and other 1000-year storms/floods across the south. “Naw, that’s just weather.”

  16. So, I’m just going to point out that the counties where Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, and Reno are located are in the green. The west is drying up and getting hotter and hotter every year. This isn’t some left/right or Dem/Rep observation. The west is about 30 years out from becoming an absolute and uninhabitable hellscape. We honestly might not even have 30 years.

  18. This feels like a loose proxy map of general partisanship. Would be interesting to see these results while controlling for 2024 vote preference.

  19. Geography — fault lines, coast lines with rising levels

    Climate — longer droughts, increased fire activity

    Weather — hotter summers, a/c needed more and more.

    The A/C one is a big one for me. I’m moving out of San Francisco and when I moved here in the mid 2010’s I was glad I didn’t need a/c but maybe a week out of the year.

    Last summer I had at least 2 weeks where my thermostat read 84. I’m finally moving out of my building with these asinine safety windows that don;t allow for window a/c units. Portable ones barely work but are highly inefficient. Its sucks when what little new housing is being built — all have these shitty windows that don’t allow for units.

    I used to live in the southeast and culturally, I won’t pretend any longer, there is a significant amount of more people educated that know, not believe, climate change is real; where back home depending what state and region — climate change acceptance is pulling what little teeth they had left.

  20. I guess I’m glad that Maricopa County (Arizona) is at least neutral and not purple? Even though we shouldn’t be dark green with how fucking how it’s getting 

  21. What’s shocking is that Florida isn’t more concerned, especially since much of the state won’t exist in the future at this rate

  22. I would think that Florida would be most worried. They’re going to sink

  23. Less likely to be exposed to right-wing propaganda in SF.

  24. Florida is hilariously unconcerned considering they are already have flood insurance problems related to climate change

  25. That map will only get more and more green as the years progress.

  26. I’d be scared too if my state was frequently on fire because of climate change

  27. It feels like pretty relevant context that the deep purple areas indicate concern from a mere 51% of the population. So, half the population in even the deepest of Republican states, and far more elsewhere, are worried about climate change.

  28. The west coast doesn’t have as widespread AC like the rest of the country. It wasnt needed but its getting warmer and warmer

  29. Why? What benefit is there in fearing it. Doing something about it, sure. But fear? The US is emitting less carbon in 2023 than 2010 and we’ve decreased every year since 2014 with 2018, 2021, and 2022 and the only exceptions, and 2021 and 2022 are only increases because covid wrecked the curve with a 10% decrease. All years after 2014 have been lower than 2014. We are on a clear downward trajectory. If you check reddit, I have been assured China is significantly decarbonizing. It’s possible they’re lying, I guess, but they need an insane amount of energy for future plans, and things like hydroelectric are more reliable anyway. Europe is making moves towards green energy. The trend is positive. We’re constantly inventing and installing greener ways of manufacturing, travel, energy creation, and farming. All of our assumptions on timeline are based on stagnation, not accounting for changes we are making, because how can you account for something that hasn’t happened yet. That said, it’s clear based on the data the world powers that be value this.
    I’m honestly way more concerned about microplastics tbh. I wouldn’t say scared, but deeply concerned. It’s one thing to develop plastic consuming bacteria, but once it passes the blood brain barrier, I’m not sure how you solve that.

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