Climate Realism Community Affects Election

2/2/17
 
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from CFACT,
2/1/17:


Climate alarmism was at the top of the Left’s agenda this past election. They counted on this issue to be a decisive one in capturing the White House and regaining control of the U.S. Senate and possibly the House of Representatives. In their elitist bubble, the leftists assumed no voter could cast a ballot for anyone not parroting their climate alarm talking points.

How wrong they were! When election day came around, voters ignored their scare tactics.

  • A Gallup poll found only 34% of Americans believe global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetimes. The poll found that climate change was dead last on their list of 13 issues important to voters.
  • The Pew Research Center reports that citizens of 36 of 40 other industrialized nations see climate change as a higher priority than do Americans. Intense media and political pressure has failed to make climate change a top issue in the United States.
  • And, in a Political Insiders poll of voters, 78% said climate change played a “minor” or “no role” in their vote in the election.

The climate realism community can take credit for educating the country, sharing the hard science fueling our skepticism, and exposing the hypocrisy and shaky science of the Green Left.

For example,

Sony Pictures Classics released Merchants of Doubt, a documentary alleging that paid hucksters peddle climate denialism. Marc Morano, who founded and runs the website Climate Depot, was featured prominently as huckster-in-chief. Morano struck back with Climate Hustle, a 90-minute film released by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and CDR Communications.

Climate Hustle unveils seven “hustles” perpetrated by climate con artists. These include the sleight of hand (patching together data sets into misleading temperature records) and the “ol’ switcheroo” (the pivot from global cooling to global warming and then again to “climate change” and “extreme weather”). Damning sequences show original clips of news anchors and scientists changing their tune as doom-predicting climate models fail to match the facts. More often — and this is the key point of Climate Hustle – the hustlers stick to their talking points long after the facts have left them behind.

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