Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?
Swing voters can have an outsized impact on elections. But many of those voters don’t know much about our climate emergency. We talk with Rich Thau of the Swing Voter Project about how these voters engage with climate news, like the most recent IPCC report.
Climate One · Climate One from The Commonwealth Club
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Show Notes
In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report unequivocally connecting global warming and extreme weather to human-driven greenhouse gas emissions, and warning of much more dramatic climate futures if we don’t change course soon.
Since the 2020 election, Rich Thau’s Swing Voter Project has been querying those who shifted from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020 about a range of issues. How will their views affect the 2022 midterms and the 2024 election? Where does climate rate on their list of issues? And does the accelerating climate crisis matter enough to affect their votes?
Guests:
Rich Thau, Moderator, The Swing Voter Project; Co-founder and President, Engagious
Andrew Freedman, Climate and Energy Reporter, Axios
Venkatachalam “Ram” Ramaswamy, Director of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
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