Yeah, this story is BS. If people in NJ cared about “climate change”, we’d have a different governor right now. I assure you, as someone who watches people from NJ routinely throw trash out of car windows and dump old appliances wherever cement-block barriers don’t prevent it, this story is total BS.
The 1,000 people they called were shore business owners anxious about the weather this weekend; the interviewer blamed the (normal) spring rain on climate change, and the 1000 business owners concurred that they were concerned.
Nobody who takes the time to answer a telephone survey in NJ can think seven days ahead - this is about a rainy start to Memorial Day weekend.
The follow-up question, not asked or answered, of course, should have been “would you be willing to pay 20-50% more for everything with no corresponding increase in salary (if you would have one, with most remaining industries leaving the US), accept significant limits to your freedom and movement, and otherwise deal with the significant degradation of your quality of life for it?”