Polling editor Carl Cannon said in an interview that aired Thursday on Hill.TV’s “What America’s Thinking” that the issue of combatting global warming has become a fixture within the Democratic Party.
“Global warming has become a catechism in the Democratic Party,” Cannon, Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, told host Jamal Simmons on Wednesday. “There’s no escaping it.”
The Senate on Tuesday blocked legislation to advance the Green New Deal resolution, which looked to take on climate change with a series of ambitious goals.
However, Democrats are expected to keep supporting measures that work to combat climate change.
“You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist? Tell that to the kids in the south Bronx which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country. Tell that to the families in Flint,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal legislation, said during a Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
A new Gallup poll released this week found that 66 percent of Americans believe global warming is caused by human activity, while 44 percent of Americans said they “worry a great deal about global warming.”
“The American people kind of believe the establishment and the science, the scientific establishment,” he continued.
“The other thing about that poll is that the number who are highly concerned has declined,” he said. “So people kind of say ‘yeah, global warming is here. Okay, but I have other problems that are more immediate, more real.'”
— Julia Manchester
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