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This story was originally published b<\/em>y\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0Guardian\u00a0and\u00a0is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>

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Amid a summer<\/span> of dangerous\u00a0heat,\u00a0drought,\u00a0and\u00a0floods, a majority of Americans are connecting increasingly severe weather to the climate crisis, new polling shows, despite efforts by Donald Trump to dismiss global heating as a \u201ccon job\u201d and a \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sign that attempts to suppress and polarize climate concerns may not be seeing full success, said Grace Adcox, senior climate strategist at Data for Progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with the question of \u2018are extreme weather events increasing,\u2019 because we thought [that] if we can find consensus on that, that can be an entry point to being able to have a more bipartisan conversation about climate and climate intervention,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

About 61 percent of likely American voters believe extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past five years, the\u00a0survey\u00a0from the progressive polling firm Data for Progress, shared exclusively with the Guardian,<\/em> found. That includes 72 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents, and nearly half\u201446 percent\u2014of all Republicans.<\/p>\n

Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island senator who has long criticized Democrats for quieting their talk of global warming\u2014or \u201cclimate-hushing\u201d\u2014said the new data \u201cadds to the mountain of evidence that the public is way ahead of the politicians on the dire consequences of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate hushers who ignore this righteous fight should take note,\u201d he told the Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The researchers also asked participants about whether or not specific forms of extreme weather are being \u201cworsened by climate change.\u201d Majorities linked climate change to worsening wildfires (64 percent), droughts (63 percent), flooding and flash flooding (62 percent), hurricanes (59 percent), and severe thunderstorms and hailstorms (59 percent). But heatwaves topped the list, with 67 percent saying climate change is making them worse\u2014including 48 percent of Republicans, the highest share for any of the extreme weather events surveyed.<\/p>\n

That could be because nearly everyone in the US has experienced unusually hot days or weeks in recent years, said Adcox. High temperatures kill more people annually in the US than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are regional differences across experiences with extreme weather,\u201d said Adcox. \u201cExtreme heat happens to have the biggest footprint in the American context compared to some of these other types of extreme weather.\u201d<\/p>\n

The finding indicates that scorching conditions could provide an \u201cinteresting opening salvo\u201d to speak about the climate crisis, she added.<\/p>\n

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, said the new poll\u2019s findings are \u201cvery consistent\u201d with the conclusions researchers have drawn based on Yale\u2019s\u00a0surveys, which have shown Americans are increasingly\u00a0linking extreme weather\u00a0to the climate crisis and want to\u00a0protect workers from heat.<\/p>\n

But Jennifer Marlon, a senior research scientist at Yale who also focuses on climate communications, said despite this, it\u2019s not clear if most Americans understand why exactly the climate is changing.<\/p>

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\u201cThis is probably the biggest misconception out there\u2014many Americans still think the warming is due to some kind of natural cycle. But it isn\u2019t,\u201d she said, adding that a\u00a0\u00a0from Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found 27 percent of people think that the changes are mostly natural.<\/p>\n

The survey findings could help inform how to frame future conversations about the climate crisis with skeptical Americans, said Adcox. For instance, the data indicates heat may be the form of extreme weather that invites most conversation about climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say, hey, this extreme heat event is crazy, so let\u2019s talk about it, let\u2019s talk about why it\u2019s happening,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Another survey finding also indicates that even Americans who may not be convinced that the climate crisis is human-caused\u2014or even that it is happening\u2014would support some climate justice-focused measures.<\/p>\n

Amid global and national rising temperatures, workers who labor outdoors\u2014such as construction workers, farm workers, and roofers\u2014are among the populations most vulnerable to heat-related illness.<\/p>\n

In fact, extreme heat is a\u00a0leading contributor\u00a0to workplace injuries and deaths. Some indoor workers, including those in warehouses, commercial kitchens, and manufacturing facilities, can also face severe heat risk due to a lack of air conditioning, poor ventilation, humidity, and other factors. It\u2019s a risk that the polling indicates most Americans think lawmakers should address.<\/p>\n

About 88 percent of participants in the Data for Progress survey said they favor policies in their own state requiring employers to provide heat protections like access to drinking water, shade, breaks, and air conditioning. Only 7 percent of likely voters said they oppose the policy, indicating broad support for the protections that previous Data for Progress polls\u00a0have also shown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese findings send a powerful message: protecting workers from dangerous heat isn\u2019t a partisan issue,\u201d said Jessica E Martinez, executive director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, a network of two dozen local grassroots worker organizations. \u201cWhen 88 percent of likely voters \u2026 support requiring employers to provide basic, lifesaving heat protections, it\u2019s clear the public expects every worker to be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the polling indicates the public would support the creation of a\u00a0federal heat standard\u2014something workers have demanded for years, but on which progress has stalled under Trump.<\/p>\n

The current administration this April also allowed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration\u2019s nationwide enforcement initiative focused on protecting workers from heat illness, then later issued a revised but vastly weakened program.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope in continuing to profile the broad and particularly strong support that we see across partisanship for extreme heat protections for workers is a way for us to illustrate what it could look like to take an approach to climate that puts working people first,\u201d said Adcox.<\/p>

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