Anthony Leiserowitz

People are increasingly connecting the dots when they see these weather events happening across the United States, it's about the pattern if an extreme event happens once or twice, it's just a coincidence, but three, five, 12, 22 times, seeing record setting events, seeing 1,000 year event after 1,000 year event happen frequently, people begin to see that larger pattern, that Nature Climate Change is actually affecting the weather today. And that's a new concept for many Americans.

Pope Francis has become the most admired man in America and when he speaks, he speaks with a loud megaphone, one that reaches all people, Catholics and non Catholics alike, climate change is not just a political issue, it’s a moral and religious issue and he will ask people, ‘What does my religious faith have to tell me and guide me about climate change?’ And it turns out that he’s speaking to a very willing audience within the Catholic community.

What they're worried about is the solution, climate change is the ultimate collective action problem. It's going to require local, state and national policy change, and it's going to require international cooperation, which means the United Nations.