ASSOCIATED PRESS • September 25, 2023
New polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that extreme weather, including a summer that brought dangerous heat for much of the United States, is bolstering Americans’ belief that they’ve personally felt the impact of climate change. About 9 in 10 Americans (87%) say they have experienced at least one extreme weather event in the past five years – including drought, extreme heat, severe storms, wildfires or flooding – up from 79% who said that just a few months ago in April. And about three-quarters of those believe climate change is at least partly to blame.