Climate Home: Whether US citizens believe that hurricanes are getting more violent and more destructive depends on whether they have been in one lately and also whether they are female, and vote Democrat.
If you are male, and tend to vote Republican, you may be less likely to accept the reality of climate change, say scientists who have been looking at public attitudes in exactly those coastal places most often hit by shrieking winds, storm surges and pounding seas.
And that is in the face of evidence...