A majority of Hoosiers, regardless of political party, support climate change policies such as planting trees to reduce risks from flooding and heat waves or increasing funding for emergency management services — even if they don't believe climate change is actually happening.
The results from the Hoosier Life Survey, an initiative from Indiana University's Environmental Resilience Institute, show that although beliefs about the existence and cause of climate change differ starkly among Republicans and Democrats, policy might be where they find common ground.
The survey found that while 93% of Hoosier Democrats believed climate change is happening, only 58% of Hoosier Republicans agreed.
But when it came to specific policies, Republicans and Democrats were surprisingly in sync.
