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Going into the midterm elections, few candidates made the warming planet a keystone of their campaigns despite devastating fires and storms that scientists say have been worsened by carbon pollution. Climate change has typically been low on voters’ lists of priorities.

But as a new Congress comes into power in January, that indifference could be changing. Surveys conducted for the midterms found that between 7 and 9 percent of the electorate named climate change or the environment as the top issue facing the country. Typically, the number lags around 2 percent, environmentalists say.

It turns out that many people who care about the environment never vote. One organization is working to change that.

Campaigners say more than 15m people who care about the environment did not vote in the 2014 midterms -- can they create a 'green wave' this November?

"We have a silent green majority in this country," Stinnett says. "And if we start showing up, nobody can stop us. That's what's really exciting."