By Douglas V. Gibbs
A couple weeks ago Kayleigh McEnany commented that Democrats are abandoning Climate Change alarmism after years of dire warnings. They’ve adopted James Carville’s famous “It’s the economy, stupid” game-plan, working to convince everyone that a recession is on the horizon and it’s all Trump’s fault, the GOP’s fault, and the only way to save us is to go back to the policies of the Democrats who screw up the economy every time they are in office in the first place. After spending the lifetime of the younger generations trying to convince us that the world will come to an end if we don’t accept global communism and a redistribution of wealth scheme that would transfer wealth from Western developed nations to other nations that seem to be less developed, they’ve decided to scare everyone into believing that free market economics and corrective measures against global communism and Islamic influences will send the world spiraling into the next Great Depression.
The problem with Climate Change was that the scare tactics were so loaded with predictions of instability and destruction, and the level they placed the “threat” was so high that when the deadlines arrived, and when the predictions didn’t come to fruition, the world realized they were full of that stuff grandma calls manure. As Greta Thunberg warned, “People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. How dare you!” Except, it wasn’t and we weren’t.
The dire predictions never materialized, but the younger generation had already been traumatized with the rhetoric. The beaches that would be under water are still sandy, and the ice caps are still frozen. All of the polar bear populations are increasing or are stable, and the environmental catastrophe that would trigger an extinction event never happened. Hurricanes did not increase, and it turns out the wildfires are being started not by global warming, but by morons with matches.
The scam has been exposed. The progressive commie left has been using climate policy to direct government spending to collectivist schemes and politically connected interests, and as the whole scam bubbles to the surface, voters are realizing the truth, remembering they tried this before with their coming ice age warnings in the seventies, and as a result have become less responsive to the climate change political messaging.
Democrats have been moving away from climate issues in their messaging because they’ve realized the economy is more important to voters than windmills and solar panels. Even Greta Thunberg has moved along, screaming about “Free Palestine,” rather than crying about the melting ice shelves that are actually increasing in size.
In short, as interest wanes, there’s no money in climate change anymore, and the Democrats always chase where they think the money is, and where they believe the next path to power is. They can’t defeat their arch nemesis, Donald Trump, with climate change, so it is being tossed aside like an old sweater.
Even the United Nations has gotten the memo. They’ve decided the climate change countdown clock is not ticking anymore. The United Nations’ climate change committee has quietly discarded their warnings that emerged after two reports predicted horrific consequences if “manmade” greenhouse emissions weren’t curbed. After decades of screaming about the coming climate catastrophe, and warnings that the world was coming to an end if we didn’t chase after the Green New Deal and live like the Flintstones, the climate crusaders are now instructing us, “Nothing to see here. Move along.”
While they kind of hang on to the great deception with a recent IPCC report crediting renewable, global climate policy and recent emission trends for making the most dire forecasts “implausible,” they are basically admitting that all of their hype was fiction. Actual data was looked at, and now researchers are refuting projections of calamity without being blacklisted faster than Dean Cain from a Hollywood studio.
Energy costs are going through the roof thanks to windmills, solar farms, and the closure of reliable natural-gas plants.
President Trump took notice, and criticized Democrats for still pushing “Climate Change” fears now that the United Nations has admitted its projections were off the mark. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “GOOD RIDDANCE!” He added with glee that the “United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”
While pulling the United States out of the Paris Accord, and working to pull the United States from climate issues, President Trump has ignored the attacks and seems to be taking a victory lap regarding the UN’s decision to abandon their scare tactics. He wrote, “For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs. Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Earlier this year, the Treasury Department announced the United States had withdrawn from the U.N.-backed Green Climate Fund and relinquished its seat on the board. Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced legislation to prohibit Democrat-run states from hurting American energy producers with “climate lawfare.”
As the climate change hysteria finally collapses under the weight of its own failed predictions, we may be witnessing among the greatest political pivots of our time. The Democratic Party, after milking the green gravy train for all it’s worth, is now scrambling for a new narrative to maintain their grip on power. The advent of the rise of Donald Trump, and the absence of the rise of sea levels, has led the American people to not be so easily fooled anymore. They’ve seen the beaches remain dry, the ice caps persist, and their energy bills skyrocket while political elites jet around the world preaching austerity. The climate change scam was never about environmental policy. It was a Trojan horse for global socialism, wealth redistribution, and government control over every aspect of our lives. With President Trump standing as the lone voice of reason against this manufactured crisis, the truth has finally emerged: the climate was never changing as dramatically as they claimed, but the political climate certainly has. The green climate change political money machine may be sputtering out, but the fight for American energy independence and economic freedom rages on, with the American people finally awakening to among the greatest deceptions of our generation.
