Republicans warm up to climate change

In a huge shift, a majority of Republicans now believe in climate change, but many still don’t consider it to be a manmade phenomenon, according to a poll released Thursday.

Of the Republican U.S. adults surveyed by Monmouth University, 64 percent attribute extreme weather patterns and rising sea levels to a changing climate, the new study found. That figure represents a 15-percentage point spike for GOP respondents since Monmouth began asking the question in 2015. In contrast, 92 percent of Democrats share the same sentiment, up from 85 percent in 2015.