Recent polling shows that 73 percent of voters believe climate change is occurring, while 57 percent of voters understand it is caused by human activity.

These poll numbers are surprising, given the context of an overall lack of adequate reportage of climate change in the corporate media.

With midterm elections nearing, the fact that most US citizens now understand that climate change is happening — and more than half of them know it is human-caused – means that climate may increasingly be a major issue for voters.

A growing number of both Republican and Democratic representatives (90 thus far) have already joined the Climate Solutions Caucus, “a…