News Media Shocked Over The Disconnect Between Caring About ‘Climate Change’ Action And Actually Voting For It

Seriously, the climate cult has grown over the past 35+ years into a full on cult, and this is the best their spreading awareness can do

Climate change is a concern for many young CT voters, but not a top one

Tons of Connecticut’s young voters say climate change is a big issue. But how many of them are basing their vote on it?

WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Jan Ellen Spiegel to discuss her article, “Is climate change a key issue for young voters? It’s complicated,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short. Read Jan’s article here.

WSHU: Hello, Jan. Climate change has been an issue of concern for young Americans for a while now. You recently spoke with about a dozen students at an environmental research class at Three River Community College in Norwich. You talked about voting. Were you surprised by the responses you got? (snip)

WSHU: Let’s start with the polling. What information were you able to get out of the polling? Because I understand the Connecticut Mirror did a poll with MassINC Polling Group in September. And then there was also a Sacred Heart University poll, which was done with GreatBlue.

JES: Well, again, it’s a little bit of extrapolation in that, let’s take the polling that the Connecticut Mirror did. There was really just one question in there, in terms of the issues that people, broadly, not just young people, cared about. And it was really phrased, which issue mattered most? There were a number of issues. Climate was pretty far down the pretty long list, although 42% of people mentioned it, which is reasonably high, especially given the history of where environmental issues have stood in terms of interest over time, not just climate issues. Then if you broke it out by age group, what I discovered was that the 60-year-old plus group had a 46% interest in it, but the 18 to 29-yea- old group was down a little from that point at 43%. But here’s the thing, it didn’t specifically say, what issue are you going to be most interested in voting on? It just gaged the interest.

Interest, eh? But, they really do not live the life

…The Sacred Heart University Institute for Sustainability and Social Justice poll was specifically a national youth survey, and they discovered that something like three quarters of the youth they surveyed, and some of them were below voting age, 15 to 29 was their group. Again, you didn’t have groups that comported with each other. Everybody was doing different age groups. Three quarters of them said they were worried about climate change. 55% of them said they were worried enough to have legitimate anxiety about it. But when you ask them, What are you going to be doing in the next six months to essentially deal with that, like voting, it just plummeted down to overall, about 36%. They broke it out by regions, the northeast region came in at around 34%.

It’s easy to say you care in theory. It’s hard to do anything about it when real world issues interfere, and the Youts are seeing the results of BidenHarrisflation, high energy prices, deflated wages from the inflation, illegals/migrants taking jobs, decreasing economic conditions, and crime. The see the high cost of housing, and seem to be realizing that Democrats, which make up the majority of those pushing the climate cult, are doing it for authoritarian power.

So there’s this disconnect, and that also became an interesting issue, what the reason for the disconnect is. And on some level, it’s just that younger voters do not know. I mean, I hate to say this, they don’t necessarily know what’s going on out there. You have a great deal of ignorance about what the Biden administration, for instance, has done on the climate front. I heard over and over again, ‘Well, I don’t think either group has done enough.’ Now, as a reporter, seeing what I term just a fire hose of policy coming out for the last four years now, that was a bit of a head scratcher for me.

Gaslighting. But, then, the kiddies only see things in short bursts, as they do not seem to be able to concentrate on anything for more than a minute, as they flip from vid to vid. Regardless, this is the same for almost every election: climate scam looks important, then the real issues that actually affect people creep in, and they vote their wallets and their safety. Hence why Leftist politicians will force actions down the throats of voters.

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If All You See…

…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post some big shot Dems feeling a loss coming.

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Mystery Drones Sat Over US Military Bases For 17 Days in 2023, Biden-Harris Admin Did Nothing

Many are saying this should be an impeachable offense. Will anyone in the news media ask Kamala Harris what she knew and when she knew it, and why her administration did nothing?

Unknown drone fleet breached US military base airspace in Virginia for 17 straight days: report

A mysterious fleet of drones entered restricted airspace and swarmed a U.S. military base along the Virginia coast for 17 days late last year, stumping the Pentagon, according to a new report.

For several nights last December, U.S. military personnel reported witnessing a fleet of unknown unmanned aircraft breach restricted airspace over a stretch of land at Langley Air Force Base along Virginia’s shore, the Wall Street Journal first reported.

The drones would start to arrive about 45 minutes to an hour after sunset each night, one official reportedly told U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, who joined several other officers responsible for the country’s most advanced jet fighters, including F-22 Raptors, on a squadron rooftop.

Kelly described the first drone he saw as roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. As many as a dozen or more drones followed, flying across Chesapeake Bay, and then traveling toward Norfolk, Virginia, and through a space overlooking the base for the Navy’s SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port, according to the Journal.

These would not be privately owned drones, not at that size and speed

The report said officials could not determine if hobbyists or adversaries – such as China or Russia – were responsible for the drone fleet. Reports of the matter reached President Biden and resulted in two weeks of meetings at the White House in December 2023, the Journal reported. Those meetings included the Defense Department, the FBI and the Pentagon’s UFO office, as well as outside experts.

No. Have you ever seen a hobbyist flying a 20 foot drone? The air space over military bases is restricted below 400 feet, and some bases have total restrictions, where planes have to fly around them. In fairness, it was more than just huge drones, others were involved

Two months before the drone fleet emerged in Virginia, five mysterious drones reportedly breached restricted airspace over a government nuclear weapons experiment site in Nevada.

The originating article at the WSJ, which is paywalled, of course, notes (via Twitchy)

Federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drones near military bases in the U.S. unless they pose an imminent threat. Aerial snooping doesn’t qualify, though some lawmakers hope to give the military greater leeway.

Reports of the drones reached President Biden and set off two weeks of White House meetings after the aircraft first appeared in December last year. Officials from agencies including the Defense Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pentagon’s UFO office joined outside experts to throw out possible explanations as well as ideas about how to respond.

Large drones flying over military bases and a nuclear weapons site sure seems like an imminent threat. Biden-Harris held meetings while allowing someone to spy on bases and such

Over 17 days, the [Virginia] drones arrived at dusk, flew off and circled back… They also were nearly impossible to track, vanishing each night despite a wealth of resources deployed to catch them. Gen. Glen VanHerck, at the time commander of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, said drones had for years been spotted flying around defense installations. But the nightly drone swarms over Langley [Air Force base], he said, were unlike any past incursion…

Analysts learned that the smaller quadcopters didn’t use the usual frequency band available for off-the-shelf commercial drones — more evidence that the drone operators weren’t hobbyists.

Near the end of the article, we learn that the feds busted a Chinese student from the U of Minnesota as he was boarding a flight to China in January 2024

On Jan. 18, federal agents arrested Fengyun Shi as he was about to board a flight to China on a one-way ticket. Shi told FBI agents he was a ship enthusiast and hadn’t realized his drone crossed into restricted airspace. Investigators weren’t convinced. but found no evidence linking him to the Chinese government. They learned he had bought the drone on sale at a Costco in San Francisco the day before he traveled to Norfolk. U.S. prosecutors charged Shi with unlawfully taking photos of classified naval installations, the first case involving a drone under a provision of U.S. espionage law. The 26-year-old Chinese national pleaded guilty and appeared in federal court in Norfolk on Oct. 2 for sentencing. Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leonard said he didn’t believe Shi’s story — that he had been on vacation and was flying drones in the middle of the night for fun. “There’s significant holes,” the judge said in court.

“If he was a foreign agent, he would be the worst spy ever known,” said Shi’s attorney, Shaoming Cheng. “I’m sorry about what happened in Norfolk,” Shi said before he was sentenced to six months in federal prison.

But “U.S. officials have yet to determine who flew the Langley drones or why…”

And had you heard this story before? You’d think it was big. Yet, no news of it at the time. Was kept hush hush. Didn’t want to interfere with Biden’s re-election campaign, eh?

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Climate Tourism Struggles To Find Ways To Not Make Things Worse Or Something

If ‘climate change’ is so bad then why are all these Believers taking long fossil fueled trips? Why are tour operators operating them?

More Travel Offerings Highlighting Interinfluence of Climate Change and Tourism

Walking across a sea-level glacier in Iceland, a tour guide points out how the landscape has changed in recent years. The population of cheeky puffins on a cliff’s edge has dropped by 20 percent since the start of the century due to rising ocean temperatures, the guide notes. Over a meal with fellow travelers that same day, the conversation turns to alternative energy sources helping the country curb its environmental footprint — a pertinent topic, given the meal takes place in a geothermal greenhouse.

In Iceland, like many places around the world, signs of the climate crisis abound. Some visitors see the country’s landscape as a single snapshot in time; they remain oblivious to global warming’s impact as they take in the waterfalls, wildlife and wide-open vistas. But for visitors traveling with the Transformative Adventure to Iceland to Inspire Climate Action tour, global warming frames the entire context of the trip.

Sounds like a lame vacation. But, the your operator is making some cash from cultists, eh? And none of them are getting to Iceland without a fossil fueled airplane trip or boat

Not so long ago, using the climate as an overriding theme for a guided tour would have been unheard of. Tourism has historically shielded people from “the real world,” but it can no longer deny the reality in which it operates. And the reality is, the impacts of climate change can be seen and felt everywhere.

Impacts like a big fossil fueled vacation? Me, I’d rather just go somewhere for fun.

This has precipitated the question of not if but how travel service providers should communicate with tourists about the climate. Several solutions have surfaced — including developing incentive programs encouraging climate-positive behaviors, incorporating voluntary and mandatory responsible travel pledges, and publishing carbon labels alongside other relevant tour information.

So stupid. None of this reduces the carbon footprint of these doomsday cultists. They want to “help”? Stay home. Do a virtual tour.

This tour is only one of a growing selection of climate-focused experiences. Natural Habitat’s Climate Change & Our Wild World series of trips, for example, take place in the Arctic and the Amazon. Conducted in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the trips offer insight into WWF’s conservation efforts and how the organization is protecting “humanity from the worst effects of climate change,” according to Natural Habitat’s website.

Similarly, Earthwatch offers several such trips — including its 11-day Climate Change at the Arctic’s Edge trip and five-day Recovery of the Great Barrier Reef, in which guests help scientists with coral recovery. The active, 9-day Wildlife in the Changing Andorran Pyrenees tour entices travelers with the promise that they can “help discover and protect this delicate Alpine environment from climate change, and from ourselves.”

Cash grab.

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Surprise: Kamala Plagiarized Portions Of Her Book “Smart On Crime”

Surprising it wasn’t titled “how to make crime easier for criminals and leave the border open for murderers and rapists”

Nolte – Famed ‘Plagiarism Hunter’ Busts Kamala Harris Book: ‘Copied Virtually an Entire Wikipedia Article,’ ‘Fabricated a Source Reference’

Dr. Stefan Weber, an internationally famous “plagiarism hunter,” has discovered that Kamala Harris “plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime,” Christopher Rufo reports.

The 2009 work of non-fiction, co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton was, per Wikipedia, “[f]irst published as Harris (then the San Francisco district attorney) was beginning her 2010 campaign for California Attorney General” and “outlines her vision of how the criminal justice system should function.“

In his summary of findings, Dr. Weber writes, “Kamala Harris copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia.”

Most damning is that “Harris fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number,” he said.

You can read the full report here.

You know who else plagiarized? Biden, and that knocked him out in 1988.

There’s lots and lots more where that came from, and it matters. I always put it in the blockquote, or, make mention of it is in the regular text, put it in quotes. This is the way you blog, even at a little one like mine

The corporate media will almost certainly either ignore this scandal or attempt to wrist-flick and “fact check” it away as a “Republican-fabricated controversy.” But this is not 2008. The corporate media can no longer bury the truth to protect a Barry Obama from his troubling relationship with a domestic terrorist.

Well, yeah. And how does the NY Times cover this?

“In a review of the book, The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism.”

So, she utterly plagiarized, but, no biggy. The problem is you Conservatives seizing.

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UC San Diego Youts Required To Take Indoctrination Course On Climate Cataclysm

This will surely be coming to most People’s Republik Of California universities, followed by others across the country. They have to make sure that the kiddies are thoroughly indoctrinated in advocating for Government to take their money and freedom

UC San Diego students now required to take course on climate change

The start of the school year at UC San Diego in late September marked the debut of a first-of-its-kind graduation requirement for students: a course in climate change.

Undergraduate students who entered the school this year, regardless of major, are now subject to the new requirement, joining other general education courses. The classes available to meet the requirement span subject matters from politics to natural disasters and geochemistry.

Called the Jane Teranes Climate Change Education Requirement in honor of a beloved Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor, the program seeks to ensure undergraduate students are equipped with an understanding of climate change and what can be done to address it. (snip)

“Whether undergraduates are majoring in STEM, the humanities, arts, social sciences or any other field, this requirement will equip them with a strong understanding of climate change and how they can contribute to meaningful solutions,” Khosla continued.

Obviously, this course will be as much about science and giving all sides of the information and debate as Islamic extremists teaching about Israel, Jews, Christians, and America in their madrassas and mosques.

Standards for the program focused on inviting students to examine the complexities of climate change across disciplines — science, politics, culture, finance, anthropology and psychology — and what potential solutions exist.

Will any of the youts note that the best solutions are those where the Believers give up the use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral? Perhaps UCSD should get rid of all the athletics programs, since they require fossil fueled vehicles to bring the teams to other schools, and other schools to UCSD? And, don’t forget all the fossil fueled vehicles people use to attend the games. UCSD could ban all fossil fueled vehicles on campus? Make sure the AC is set to 86 and heat at 60?

Meanwhile, the Church Of Scientology in San Diego is probably wonder why they get such a bad rap when you have a world-wide cult teaching at a government funded university.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible water intensive lawn causing skyrocketing temperatures, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Da Techguy’s Blog, with a post on the great Chicago train robbery.

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National Border Patrol Council Endorses Trump, Says Electing Harris Would Bring Hell To Every Community

No one expected them to actually endorse Harris, though, did they?

National Border Patrol Council ‘Strongly’ Endorses Trump at Arizona Rally

The National Border Patrol Council issued a strong and emphatic endorsement of former President Donald Trump during an Arizona rally on Sunday.

Speaking at the podium, border patrol union president Paul Perez knocked Vice President Kamala Harris for her work as the “border czar” while praising the former president for having “always stood with the men and women who protect this border.”

“If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime, will continue to put our country in peril,” he said.

“Only one man can fix that. That is Donald J. Trump. He has always stood with the men and women who protect this border, who put their lives on the line for this country, a man who knows about putting his life on the line for what is right,” he continued.

“This November, we have a choice to make: continue the chaos, allow the criminal cartels to control the border, to allow drugs and fentanyl across our country, or put an end to it once and for all. On behalf of the 16,000 men and women represented by the National Border Patrol Council, we strongly support and endorse Donald J. Trump for president of the United States,” he concluded.

Two points on this. First, I still do not like federal government unions or agencies endorsing any politician: they work for the government, and shouldn’t do this. Second, will this make a difference in the election? Will it convince people to switch their vote to Trump? There are almost no articles which mention in the headline their endorsement. A lot of the articles look like this

Trump pitches plan to hire more border agents after sinking a bipartisan bill that would have boosted staffing

And mention the endorsement deep in the article. Most Republicans did not support it, because it would have been a disaster for illegal immigration. Trump simply wants a bill that would hire 10K border patrol agents.

See, it was only a few taken over by a violent Venezuelan gang which threatened to kill police officers. At least Martha blew up the MSM talking point that it wasn’t happening at all.

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Cult Crazy: Almost 40% Would Be Up For WWII Style Rationing

Well, if they keep backing leftist politicians they will get WWIII style rationing

Almost 40% would agree to WW2-style RATIONING to fight climate change

After the end of World War II, it took Britain almost a decade to finally abolish rationing for everyday goods.

While the war may be almost 80 years in the past, nearly 40 per cent of the public would now welcome back the ration book to help fight climate change.

Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, surveyed almost 9,000 participants from India, Brazil, Germany, and the US.

Their responses revealed that rationing for fuel and ’emissions-intensive’ products such as meat is nearly as widely accepted as raising taxes.

Lead author Oskar Lindgren, a PhD student at Uppsala University, says: ‘Rationing may seem dramatic, but so is climate change. This may explain why support is rather high.’

Weirdly, all those who believe in this aren’t actually reducing their own consumption voluntarily.

Currently, most governments and researchers focus on ‘economic instruments’ like taxing polluting products and subsidising greener alternatives.

However, scientists believe that a fairer alternative might be to limit how much of these goods can be bought.

Mr Lindgren says: ‘One advantage of rationing is that it can be perceived as fair, if made independent of income.’

And who would be in charge of this? Government? Sounds rather authoritarian. Rationing was rather forced on nations during WWII due to shortages, especially in a nation like Britain. They really didn’t have much of a choice. And does anyone think that the Elites would be subjected to the same rationing? How many politicians yammer about reducing the use of fossil fuels, yet, use way more than everyone else?

Overall, 38 per cent of respondents said they would accept monthly limits on fuel purchasing compared with 39 per cent who said they would accept greater fuel taxes.

Likewise, 33 per cent of people said they would support monthly limits on meat purchases compared with 44 per cent who said they would back a greater tax on high climate-impact foods.

This is all theoretical. The minute government started putting this in action there would be a revolt. At least in the 1st World, and, especially here in the U.S.A.

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Cackles Staffers Whine That Biden Admin Isn’t Helping Out

Um, they do realize that Harris IS actually part of the Biden administration? That they’ve been calling it the Biden-Harris admin since first elected? I wonder what has them whining?

Harris staffers blaming Biden admin for not helping her campaign: ‘They’re too much in their feelings’

spite houseVice President Kamala Harris staffers are starting to blame the Biden administration for not doing enough to help her presidential campaign, according to a new report – as the Democrat sinks in the polls with less than a month before the Nov. 5 election.

Despite the veneer of unity that Harris and President Biden have displayed after Biden dropped out of the race, some of their staffers have reportedly been butting heads behind the scenes.

Privately, several members of Harris’ team have feuded with Biden’s White House staff, feeling that they aren’t adequately prioritizing her election bid while some within the president’s orbit still feel raw over his ouster.

“The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign,” a source involved in the Harris-Walz campaign told Axios.

As the Harris-Walz campaign grapples with a very close election, some within Harris’ orbit have felt that the White House hasn’t been calibrating the president’s schedule and messaging in the way that she needs, Axios reported, citing 10 sources familiar.

Well, of course they’re whining now that Harris is not doing so well. And, I really do have to wonder if Joe and Jill are intentionally doing little things to sabotage Harris’s campaign as retaliation for her helping knock him out from running for re-election. Joe has very much shown over his career that he has a mean streak. Seriously, most politicians of his stature have it in them.

To date, Harris has staunchly resisted pressure from top party strategists who have implored her to publicly draw a contrast with the policies of unpopular Biden.

“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” Harris told ABC News’ “The View” last week when asked if she would’ve done something differently during her boss’ presidency.

Obviously, she doesn’t want to say she would be an even more hardcore Modern Socialist than Biden. Anyhow, it’s not all bad blood, if you will, between Biden and Harris, but, there are enough big things that stand out.

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