New poll shows big support for offshore wind farms, desalination, renewable energy requirements
With a heat wave approaching that could send inland temperatures soaring this weekend to more than 105 degrees, a new poll shows Californians’ concerns are rising about climate change and its connections to extreme weather.
“People are connecting the dots between what’s happening with the weather and what’s happening with climate change in a way they haven’t before,” said Mark Baldassare, statewide survey director at PPIC. “Most people in California see a connection. They have been impacted and they are worried about the future.”
The most devastating, the Camp Fire in 2018, killed 85 people and leveled the town of Paradise in Butte County — making it the deadliest wildfire anywhere in the United States since 1918. This past month was the hottest June recorded on Earth since modern temperature records began in 1850. Scientists say reducing the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil can ease the severity of climate change, although some is already inevitable.
In Wednesday’s PPIC poll, 45% of adults said they have been personally affected in the past two years by an extreme weather event. Residents of the Inland Empire , the Bay Area , and the Central Valley were more likely than people in Los Angeles and Orange and San Diego counties to say that.
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