A silent majority of the world's people wants stronger climate action. It's time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis - but don't know they're the majorityThe Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89% Project - and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world's population wants climate action. Read moreA superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world - between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies - want their governments to take stronger climate action.As co-founders of a non-profit that studies news coverage of climate change, those findings surprised even us. And they are a sharp rebuttal to the Trump administration's efforts to attack anyone who does care about the climate crisis.Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope are the co-founders of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Continue reading...