Skip to content
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Passport
  • Support WSKG
Donate
  • Donate
  • logo
  • logo
  • Donate
  • Home
  • News
  • TV
  • Your Radio
  • Schedules
  • Arts
  • Education
  • History
  • Science
  • Donate
  • More
    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Passport
    • Support WSKG

WSKG - Local news and arts, broadcasting NPR radio and PBS TV.

WSKG thanks our sponsors...
  • Donate your vehicle to support WSKG

WSKG (https://wskg.org/poll-climate-change-causing-problems-for-significant-number-of-pennsylvanians/)

  • Donate
  • Home
  • News
  • TV
  • Your Radio
  • Schedules
  • Arts
  • Education
  • History
  • Science
Listen Live WSKG
Listen Live WSKG Classical

Watch Live WSKG TV
Watch Live PBS Kids
Coronavirus Updates
Coronavirus Updates

Poll: Climate Change Causing Problems For Significant Number Of Pennsylvanians

By Amy Sisk | April 8, 2018
More
  • More on climate change
  • Subscribe to climate change

A road sign is reflected in the waters of the Connequenesing Creek that overflowed it's banks along Evergreen Mill road after heavy rains from storms over Sunday into Monday, Nov. 6, 2017 in Harmony, Pa. Emergency officials suspect tornadoes and straight-line winds left behind a trail of damage Sunday that started in Indiana and continued through Ohio and into Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

STATE IMPACT PENNSYLVANIA – Across Pennsylvania, four in 10 registered voters say they have personally experienced problems related to climate change, according to a recent poll from StateImpact Pennsylvania and Franklin & Marshall College.

Dealing with extreme weather is a common theme among Pennsylvanians who responded that they believe climate change is affecting them. Some have had to cancel vacations due to hurricanes, while others have experienced flooding in their basements.

For Carol Gingrich of Bushkill, a town in the Pocono mountains along the New Jersey border, it’s the seemingly nonstop storms.

“We have gone through four nor’easters just this winter,” she said. “Now, it’s not unusual to have a nor’easter come onto the East Coast like this. But four pretty much back to back, and one really devastated the area, is pretty intense.”

She said the first storm knocked out power for a week, forcing her and her 90-year-old mother to stay in a hotel an hour away that had electricity.

Scientists have not specifically linked this year’s nor’easters to climate change. More and more, scientists are researching whether to attribute climate change as the cause of an individual storm. But Gingrich’s comments and those of others in the poll echo the consensus of leading climate experts, that climate change is exacerbating extreme weather-related events across the globe, ranging from heat waves to wildfires to heavy rainfall.

Sharon Tapp, a lifelong resident of York, drew a link between climate change and intense bouts of rain in her area. Sometimes, water would flood her home.

“It started becoming an issue I would think about 10 years ago, and it was happening fairly frequently,” she said. “I ended up then spending some money and some time getting some waterproofing done in my basement, and for the last two years I haven’t had any issues.”

While not all poll respondents said they personally have experienced problems related to climate change, 62 percent said they believe it is causing problems, somewhere in the world, right now.

Berwood Yost, director of F&M’s Center for Opinion Research, said the poll shows Democrats and independents are much more likely than Republicans to believe climate change is happening, and that the state should do more to address it. Still, 53 percent of Republicans responded they believe climate change is causing problems now or will in the future.

“It’s real. There are partisan differences but, for the most part, people expect something to happen,” Yost said. “They want to see government do something about it.”

Two-thirds of overall respondents said they would “definitely” or “probably” like the state government to take further action to address problems associated with climate change.

Recent Posts

  • Author and disability rights activist Elsa Sjunneson on fighting ableism

      Author and disability rights activist Elsa Sjunneson talks with host Crystal Sarakas about disability representation in the media, harmful tropes, and fighting ableism in society. As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her.

  • Environmental regulator denies Greenidge Generation’s air permits over cryptocurrency mining

      The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation denied the renewal of permits for the Greenidge Generation power plant in Yates County Tuesday, after months of protest over the facility’s cryptocurrency mining operation. In a 20-page ruling, the DEC maintained its previous position that the facility did not comply with New York’s statutory climate goals, which stipulate that all energy generation facilities, like Greenidge, be zero-emissions by 2040.

  • Landmark agreement to see 1,000 acres of land returned to Onondaga Nation

    WRVO - A landmark agreement between the Onondaga Nation, New York state and the federal government returns more than 1,000 acres of forested land in southern Onondaga County back to the Onondaga. It’s one of the country's largest land transfers from a state government to an Indigenous people in history.

  • Expect busy roads and airports as Independence Day travel surges

    WRVO - Many Americans will be wearing their red, white, and blue away from home this holiday weekend, as travel forecasts predict a surge of people on the roads and in airports. Elizabeth Carey from AAA said high gas prices and inflation are not going to keep millions from enjoying a holiday vacation.

  • A bill loosening rules for Pennsylvania poll watchers heads to Governor Wolf’s desk

    WSKG - State lawmakers are sending Gov. Tom Wolf a GOP-led measure to expand what poll watchers are allowed to do during elections. Under the bill from Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin), people running for office would be able to appoint up to three registered voters – instead of two – to keep tabs on vote casting and counting at any polling place in the state.

WSKG thanks our sponsors...

About WSKG

WSKG connects you to local and global news and the arts online, on the radio, and on TV. NPR and PBS affiliate.

CONTACT US
email: WSKGcomment@wskg.org

phone: 607.729.0100

address: 601 Gates Road Suite 4, Vestal, NY 13850-2288

DONATE

Pay an underwriting invoice


  • WSKG
  • Arts
  • Education
  • Science
  • News
  • Your Radio
  • Schedule
  • TV
  • About
  • WSKG Staff
  • Contact Us
  • Jobs
  • Public Reports & Policies
  • Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
  • Protect My Public Media
FCC PUBLIC FILES
WSKG-FM
WSQX-FM
WSQG-FM
WSQE
WSQA
WSQC-FM
WSQN
WSKG-TV
WSKA
Disabled and need assistance with the online FCC public file?
Contact Gary Talkiewicz
WSKG
601 Gates Road
Vestal, New York 13850
607-729-0100
gtalkiewicz@wskg.org

Full Frequency Information Listed Here

WSKG

89.3fm   Binghamton
91.1fm   Corning, Elmira
88.7fm   Hornell
90.9fm   Ithaca
89.9fm   Odessa
91.7fm    Oneonta
90.5fm   Watkins Glen

WSKG Classical

91.5    Binghamton
105.9  Cooperstown
90.7    Corning
88.1    Greene, Norwich
92.1     Ithaca

WSKG HD TV

Binghamton
46.1 Broadcast TV
7 Time Warner Cable
1221 Time Warner Digital Cable

Elmira
30.1 Broadcast TV
8 Time Warner Cable
1221 Time Warner Digital Cable

Oneonta, Cooperstown
8 Time Warner Cable
1221 Time Warner Digital Cable

Hornell
1221 Time Warner Digital Cable

© Copyright 2022, WSKG

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑