Climate Change Advocates More Numerous Than Gun Rights, Pro-Choice/Life, Pro/Anti-Immigration Activists

I'm sure you've seen denier trolls like Anthony Watts and Bjørn Lomborg try to pretend the public doesn't care about climate change. Nothing could be farther from the truth, according to a report from a couple years back by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies entitled Global Warming's Six Americas. As people flood into the voting booths tonight across the US, often to decide very tight races, I think it's a brilliant time to remind everyone how out of touch with, not only the science, but the pulse of the nation the ignorant deniosphere is.

"And the first of those [groups of Americans we researched] is what we call 'the alarmed.' It's about 18% of the public. Uh, these are people who, uh, are absolutely convinced climate change is happening, it's human-caused, it's a very serious threat, it's happening now. They're already taking action in their own lives to try to reduce their own carbon footprint, and they're really hungry to know what's the next thing I can do. This has been called, in political science terms, an issue public. This is the part of the public that is the most mobilized, and most engaged with this issue. And that's actually a very large issue public, compared to other issue publics, like, say, on, on gun rights, or pro-choice, or pro-life, or anti-immigration, or pro-immigration. I mean, those are all different kinds of issue publics out there that agitate or advocate for particular policies. Um, the climate change issue public is actually larger than most of those other ones."

- Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University

If nothing else, the impressive turnout at the recent climate change march proves Leiserowitz is right, and clueless deniers are miserably and laughably lost once again.

Have a watch, and then make sure you run out to the polls tonight, if you haven't already. Your vote could be the difference between inaction and the adoption of meaningful policy on an issue upwards of 50-60 million Americans care deeply about, and many millions more are concerned about!