2016 was supposed to be the ‘climate change’ election. And 2012. 2008. Even 2004 with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raging and Islamic jihadis attacking was supposed to be a ‘climate change’ election. Then there was 2000, with hyper-Warmist Al Gore running, and he really didn’t push the issue that much. Plus all the mid-terms. Members of the Cult of Climastrology had their hopes up, to no avail
This won’t be the climate election after all. So what?
This could have been the year of the first real climate change election. It probably won’t be.
After years of climate change being low on voters’ priorities, getting almost no news coverage as a campaign policy issue and only getting the occasional debate question, 2020 had the potential to be a blockbuster year for climate change.
But instead, with less than 50 days until Election Day and voters in some states already voting, the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the scene, along with racial justice, the economy and health care.
And since Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday, the fight over replacing her on the court has overshadowed every other issue and might remain front and center through the rest of the campaign.
Climate got a moment in the spotlight earlier last week when President Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, focused on the wildfires in the West, highlighting their stark differences.
Trump denied that climate change was fueling disasters or even that temperatures would continue to rise. Biden, in response, called Trump a “climate arsonist” and touted his climate plan. But then the campaigns returned to regular programming.
If you aren’t familiar with E&E News, they are very much a propaganda arm of the Cult of Climastrology. To have them admit all this must have sent their Warmist employees running for their safe spaces and coloring books. Especially the part about ‘climate change’ being “low on voters’ priorities”. That admission must have hurt their hearts. Despite attempting to spread awareness since 1988 and ramping up their scaremongering ever since, it’s still low hanging fruit.
“COVID-19, the economic meltdown, the public health crisis, Black Lives Matter are all top-tier issues. That’s a reality,” said Kevin Curtis, executive director of NRDC Action Fund, which is the political arm of the Natural Resources Defense Council and supports Biden.
“Accepting that reality and not ignoring it, I feel really good about where climate is for the next president, assuming it’s Joe Biden,” he said.
Let’s say Biden wins: he probably won’t do much at all, as it’ll be tough for him to have the energy to do anything, especially since he can’t be bothered to do all that much while running for president. Stealth president Kamala Harris will be more interested in BLM and amnesty for illegals.
By many measures, voters aren’t prioritizing climate much more than before. The Pew Research Center last month found it to be voters’ 11th highest priority out of 12 it polled. Gallup said in January that climate was the seventh most likely issue for voters to rank as “extremely important.”
That’s despite numerous developments since the 2016 presidential race. Dire reports from organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.S. government painted a bleak picture of a future without significant greenhouse gas cuts.
Personally, I’d love one whole debate devoted to ‘climate change’, in which Joe can wander about discussing that thing, you know that thing, come on, man, it’s the thing (it’s not the only thing from Dementia Joe), while Trump can explain what the climate cultists actually want to do, with their taxes and taking away freedom, liberty, and choice. And while pointing out that the biggest proponents of Doing Something are utter climahypocrites
“Climate is going to have huge resonance in this election, particularly with young people,” said Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist; former presidential candidate; and co-chairman of Biden’s Climate Engagement Advisory Council, a group of activists tasked with promoting his environmental agenda.
Didn’t the “climate candidate” flame out early, along with fellow Warmist Jay Inslee?
But Mike McKenna, an energy policy consultant and former senior official in Trump’s White House, said general election voters have never prioritized climate or the environment, and there’s little reason to think this year will be different.
“The race is coming down to a referendum on either management of the coronavirus (in which case Mr. Biden wins) or management of public safety (in which Mr. Trump probably wins),” McKenna said in an email.
Biden has a clear climate plan, he said, but “no one is paying any attention to it.” McKenna added, “I just think that the general flow of the campaign has been focused on the candidates rather than what they might do.”
It always drops to the bottom because it is a bottom issue. And, sadly, the focus on it reduces the focus on real environmental issues. Trump would be wise to position cleaning up the environmental pollution in low income areas.
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