US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims

New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living

Oliver Milman
Fri 26 Dec 2025 12.30 GMT
Last modified on Fri 26 Dec 2025 12.32 GMT

Most Americans now connect the worsening climate crisis with their cost of living pressures, with clear majorities also disagreeing with moves by the Trump administration to gut climate research and halt windfarms, new polling has found.

About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University.

Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, storms and heatwaves, exacerbated by the climate crisis, are taking a toll on food production, with recent spikes in the cost of coffee and chocolate blamed by experts, at least in part, on global heating.

Meanwhile, many Americans have faced rising home electricity costs and steep increases in home insurance premiums, with both of these areas also influenced by the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s decision to choke off solar and wind power, often the cheapest source of energy.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/us-voters-link-climate-crisis-affordability

[Lovie777]

1. Makes sense..............

[Vogon_Glory]

2. I suspect that some of the droughts that forced cattlemen to thin their beef herds have

forced even reflex-Republican-voting Texas ranchers to think that there might be something to this climate-warming thing, even if their county’s local Republican Party county infrastructure has declare man-made climate change to be anathema.