Add to that this year's extreme floods and wildfires, also fueled by climate change, and it begs the question - are those extreme temperatures and disasters a wake-up call for humanity? Anthony Leiserowitz is founder and director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and I asked him if this marks a turning point for how people here in the U.S. perceive and think about climate change. CHANG: You put your finger on something, and that is the effects of climate change are still being felt unevenly around the world. Like, I know you've been studying how people in the Arctic have been grappling with climate change for years and years. CHANG: And you're finding not only are people caring more about climate change - you're finding that a small subset of Americans are actually feeling pretty extreme anxiety about climate change, right?

Source: CNN September 09, 2023 03:59 UTC