Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?

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🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hear that? It's your big McDonald's hunger calling, because the Big Arch is back, and this time
0:05.3	is here to stay with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that Big Arch sauce. Hungry? You are now.
0:11.6	Order delivery on the McDonald's app.
0:15.2	Serve from 11am, upcharges and fees apply to delivery orders. Subjects availability, price and participation may vary.
0:20.6	This is Climate One.
0:21.8	I'm Greg Dalton.
0:23.1	The 2020 Electoral College vote was decided by roughly 44,000 voters in three states.
0:29.0	But many of those voters don't know much about our climate emergency.
0:32.8	Rich Tao with the swing voter projects says those who want to advance the climate cause
0:36.9	need to improve their
0:38.2	messaging. To find the people that I'm focus grouping, people at the tip of the spear electorally,
0:44.4	and get a lot more of the messages that they need to hear about what still can be done and get those
0:50.5	through to them. As the recent IPCC report showed, we need to make big changes now
0:55.8	to stave off the worst possible future outcomes.
0:58.7	The window for action is now.
1:01.1	The best window for action in Washington
1:03.3	is the next four to six months after that,
1:07.5	maybe in 10 years, and we don't have 10 years.
1:13.5	How much do swing voters care about climate?
1:18.4	Climate ones empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.
1:23.7	Since the 2020 election, Rich Tao has been hosting monthly panel discussions with swing voters in key swing states.
1:25.8	His swing voter project has been querying those who voted for Trump in 2016 and for Biden
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