Andrew Romano·West Coast CorrespondentFri, October 22, 2021, 11:51 AM·5 min readIn this article:

• https://news.yahoo.com/poll-more-than-two-thirds-of-republicans-say-climate-change-is-not-an-emergency-185118987.html
• Joe Biden46th and current president of the United States

As President Biden pushes Congress to pass his climate agenda just days before world powers gather in Scotland to hash out a new international accord, more than two-thirds of Republicans (67 percent) continue to insist that climate change is “not an emergency,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

Coming on the heels of a summer that featured record-setting heat waves, wildfires and floods — all exacerbated by climate change — the result is a stark example of how U.S. politics imperils global progress on the issue.

The survey of 1,704 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Oct. 19 to 21, found that nearly all Democrats (78 percent) and a plurality of independents (45 percent) view climate change as “an existential threat that must be…