This is an Important Issue for CBS News
Most Coloradans believe in climate change. So, why do some vote for climate change deniers?
With less than two months before the November election, a CBS News poll shows Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied in the battleground states.
While climate change is not the top issue for most voters, research out of the University of Colorado Boulder finds it could be a significant factor in the race. CU’s Center for Environmental Futures found a quarter of Republicans, who think climate change is very important, voted for President Biden in 2020, likely swinging the election.
But, in some parts of Colorado, voters’ views on the issue aren’t black and white. (snip)
Much of the Eastern Plains is in Congressional District 4 where — according to statistical modeling by Yale University — 63% of residents are worried about global warming and nearly 59% want Congress and the president to do more to address it. Yet, former President Donald Trump — who has called climate change a “hoax” — won CD4 by 23 points in 2016 and 15 points in 2020, and the district hasn’t voted a Democrat into Congress for 16 years. It’s one of the reasons Rep. Lauren Boebert switched to the district.
Yale’s research shows that — for a majority of people in CD4 — a candidate’s views on global warming are important to their vote. Three-fourths would support regulating carbon dioxide and two-thirds believe clean energy should be a priority for Congress, efforts Boebert opposes.
But while she is a climate denier, Arnusch, a climate believer, says he will likely vote for her.
“Climate is certainly important but it’s not my top priority. When I have that ballot sitting on my table and I’m trying to decide which way to vote — whether it’s a candidate or a ballot measure, which we vote on often in this state — I think about how this is going to affect my farm, how this is going to affect my family.
And there it is: even for most Warmists Doing Something about the climate crisis scam is important in theory, not in practice. Real world issues, like the economy, making sure energy, including fossil fuels, are abundant, inexpensive, and available, and seeing their communities overrun with migrants, including Venezuelan gang members, is way more important in Reality Land. Warmists, again, rarely make changes in their own lives, and aren’t too enthused to vote for candidates who will impose more taxes/fees, jack up their cost of living, and restrict their freedom.
And this drives the Elites, and those who think they are Elites, nuts. 30+ years of spreading awareness, of indoctrination, and they just cannot force those stupid peasants to cooperate.
Everybody believes the climate is changing. It has for millions of years.
The question is simply…. WHY?
Almost all scientists accept the evidence that the current period of warming is a result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. The source of this CO2 is burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas).
Chicken Little Karen Man
Almost all scientists agreed that the sun revolved around the earth and then Copernicus came along and then Galilei backed him….and the Pope slapped old Galileo around… Politics you know…
Karen, consensus is not science. Is the planet warming? Possibly. You know it did the same thing during the Medieval Warming Period around 1000-1100 AD…. without any cars around… Is it gonna flip back like it did during the Little Ice Age?
No one knows.
You some voters have more than one issue?
Those who are against CO2 don’t care about climate change. The problem, as they see it, is that CO2 is plant food. More plants mean more farms, which means that we can sustain more people. The Globalists want to drastically reduce the number of people. Hence, their war on CO2. Parts of the Sahara Desert are greening, and the Globalists don’t like it one bit.