Jul 21, 2026 · 25 min · 15 segments
Two veteran pollsters tell us not what they think, but what we think -- Democrats, Republicans and Independents -- about the environment, climate and energy. Some of their insights will certainly…
Alec TysonGuest
Ashley GrosseGuest
Scott TinkerHost
After three decades in the news, and do people care much about climate? What is, what do your surveys show?
They don't, they don't see it necessarily as interconnected to their most important issue, which tends to be, uh, jobs, the economy, inflation.
Those are the most important issues to people and have been for the last four last presidential elections.
And the environment, when you ask people about sort of what's, you know, the most important priority you have, it ranks about number five.
One thing that's really interesting here is over the last 10 years, over the last 20 years, we haven't really seen an increase in the share of US adults who are concerned about climate change, right? You have about a quarter or so-
... maybe a little bit more, who say they're just, that they don't see this as a problem.
And that share hasn't been changing even as the national dialogue or some of the rhetoric around climate change has become more visible and stronger.
The current climate conversation, it may be resonating with the folks already inside the tent, but there's not a lot of-
I mean, in the last presidential election, you know, '24, it was hardly mentioned really.
After three decades in the news, and do people care much about climate? What is, what do your surveys show?
They don't, they don't see it necessarily as interconnected to their most important issue, which tends to be, uh, jobs, the economy, inflation.
Those are the most important issues to people and have been for the last four last presidential elections.
And the environment, when you ask people about sort of what's, you know, the most important priority you have, it ranks about number five.
One thing that's really interesting here is over the last 10 years, over the last 20 years, we haven't really seen an increase in the share of US adults who are concerned about climate change, right? You have about a quarter or so-
... maybe a little bit more, who say they're just, that they don't see this as a problem.
And that share hasn't been changing even as the national dialogue or some of the rhetoric around climate change has become more visible and stronger.
The current climate conversation, it may be resonating with the folks already inside the tent, but there's not a lot of-
I mean, in the last presidential election, you know, '24, it was hardly mentioned really.
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