I wonder if that is what Times writer Matthew T Huber was going for
DAVID MARCUS: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax
For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.
“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.
In elementary school, I endured warnings of a coming ice age, then by high school it was global warming that was minutes away from ending humanity. By the time I was an adult, the warming having failed, surprisingly, to occur, we settled on “climate change,” as the vague name for the inevitable apocalypse.
In 2018, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was coming into prominence, she told us that we had a mere 12 years to fix the climate problem or we would all die. In that time, untold trillions of dollars have been spent by the government, along with basically every business in the country, to hold the weather at bay, even though every prediction the alarmists have made has fallen flat.
Let’s flip over to that Times piece
Sam Forstag, a Democrat running for Congress in Montana, is in many ways a familiar kind of progressive: He is a union worker calling for taxing the rich and expanding Medicare for all Americans.
But there’s one topic he appears to avoid, in his platform and in public forums. When asked recently about the growing threat of wildfires and drought in the West, he discussed a terrible ski season and record-high temperatures, but did not name the climate crisis directly.
The Democratic U.S. House candidates Trey Martin, a union ironworker in Oklahoma, and Chris Reichard, an electrician and veteran running in Missouri, are also steering somewhat clear of what was once a centerpiece of many progressive political campaigns. Even in a blue district in Minnesota, Kaela Berg, a Democratic state legislator who works as a flight attendant, only mentions climate change briefly on her congressional campaign website, linking it to bringing down energy costs.
For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if at all — in part because these new candidates have narrowed their focus to energy affordability to win back the working class. It is a striking shift from a few years ago, when many Democratic politicians thought the promise of a Green New Deal would build a coalition based on green jobs and fighting inequality.
Here’s the thing which is being missed by those proclaiming the end of the climate scam cult: it’s not going anywhere. They’re simply keeping quiet about it to win an election. And then it will come right back up, especially if they win the White House in 2028 and control Congress. It’s not about the climate, it’s about power, money, and control. Democrats will never give up on that.
The voters who already prioritize climate action are firmly in the Democratic camp and highly educated and affluent, or as the economist Thomas Piketty calls them, the “Brahmin Left.” What candidates like Mr. Forstag, Mr. Reichard and Ms. Berg seem to understand is that for blue-collar voters, energy is an “end of the month” issue, and affordability should be the overarching policy goal. This is all the more important today, given rising electricity rates and war-fueled spikes in gasoline prices.
In other words, Democrats think the blue collars are big dummies, so, they must be patronized and lied to. Heck, even a barista at Starbucks thinks they are “highly educated and affluent”, even though they offer little of value, unlike folks doing your plumbing and AC. Fixing your cars. Growing your food. And Democrats hate them.
The Progressive Left turning cities into toxic sh*th*les, and the sobbing over the fact that the world is turning into a toxic sh*th*le.
It’s just so easy for people who don’t have concerns about how they’re going to put food on the table this evening to whine about people who do have those concerns being less worried about the temperature 74 years from now.
In one year Mad King Donny has hurt the people concerned with putting food on the table this evening most of all. It’s why his favorability is in the 30s.
But Mr Dana does recognize, if obliquely, a huuuuge problem. The working class is having a hard time making ends meet, much less improving the standard of living.
“Fortunately”, our billionaires and multi-millionaires are doing better than ever! Bezos, Elon, Lutnick, Kushner and his felon father, trumps, Bessent, Huang, Ellison, Buffett, Gates, Zuck, Stephens, Fertitta, Witkoff, Loeffler, Witkoff, Burgum, etc are making mo’ money hand over fist!
For decades, “our” government has been in the business of redistributing wealth from the working class to plutocrat (political donor class). Policies on taxes!!, labor vs capital, trade, pensions, insurance, healthcare, foreign policy… The proof of the pudding is in the tasting… the rich are getting richer (even faster than global warming!) while the workers are treading water and drowning.
But the white-wing applauds punishing Hispanic vegetable pickers and roofers, African-Americans, women, the working poor, LGBTQs…
Inventing crisis for the sake of scaring the population is not a blue collar job. We deal in REALITY.
The excitable Teach typed: “Here’s the thing which is being missed by those proclaiming the end of the climate scam cult: it’s not going anywhere.”
Relax, William! You’ve won he political fight, which is all that counts. True, global warming is NOT going away!! But, you elected the hyper-ignorant King Donny the First. We humans will continue to convert the carbon in oil, gas and coal into carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate which will continue to warm our only atmosphere. Infrared radiation (IR) from Earth is intercepted by CO2 molecules in our atmosphere which blocks some of the IR’s trip to outer space, hence global warming. Will it ever stop? Yo, I don’t know!
LOL. Donny’s Band o’ MAGAt Boyz (D’BOMB) are worried about a 10 cent increase in gas prices to slow global warming but ignore Donny’s 30% increase in gas to 1) help elect Repubicuns in 2026 and 2) to distract from Donny’s other peccadilloes. You are in a cult.
MAGAts worry about added costs to address climate change but ignore inflation caused by war, tariffs, graft and grift. You make no sense and worse, you lie to yourselves.
No matter how snotty and childish Rimjob’s remarks are to the contrary, the point being made is that there isn’t a crisis.
most polls put Republican belief in climate change at over 50%
Independents at about 70%
That was from UChicago.edu Flat Earth believers 10%
BigFoot believers 20%
Climate change deniers 30%
IPCC models of sea level rise since 2007 have been quite consistent and accurate
IPCC temp estimates have slightly UNDERESTIMATED the increase.
All of that info is easily accessible although absent from this blog. which would rather highlight Greta’s instagram account.
Teach will point out 46 SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATED9/0 WITH IPCC DISPUTE IPCC FINDINGS
while neglecting to point out the context of that number. Over 650 will be presenting papers at this years IPCC
when you read something you want to believe about climate change, do you fact check it?
In my philosophy class on critical thinking we are advised to check everything to avoid confirmation bias
In my philosophy class on critical thinking we are advised to check everything to avoid confirmation bias
Too bad you don’t follow that advice, johnnie boy.
Climate change belief is directionally proportional to educational attainment levels.