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Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser
Taki's Magazine ^ | November 15, 2024 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 11/15/2024 9:04:42 AM PST by Salman

A few days before last week’s election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: “If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.”

He had that right.

Climate change fanaticism was effectively on the ballot last week. The green energy agenda was decisively defeated.

It turns out that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren’t much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now. They’re too busy trying to pay the bills.

That result shouldn’t be too surprising. Every poll in recent years has shown climate change ranks near the bottom of voter concerns. Jobs, inflation and illegal immigration register much higher on the scale of concerns.

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Interesting analysis.
1 posted on 11/15/2024 9:04:42 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman
It turns out that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren’t much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now. They’re too busy trying to pay the bills.

The money quote.

2 posted on 11/15/2024 9:06:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Salman

Good. It’s just a boondoggle and a grift for the left.


3 posted on 11/15/2024 9:06:38 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Salman

Climate change has always been a big loser since the beginning of time.


4 posted on 11/15/2024 9:09:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Jamaicans Haitians and Indians used to run motels and 7-11s. Now,they run Congress and the judiciary)
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To: Salman
More...we are sick of being told what to eat...what to drive...what kind of appliance we MUST buy...etc etc..just leave us alone.

Spend the climate money on canals...or dams...

5 posted on 11/15/2024 9:12:42 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: kosciusko51

Rather than trying to change global warming, a situation which has happened many times in Earth’s history.
Mankind should be doing it’s best to ADAPT to the coming conditions.


6 posted on 11/15/2024 9:13:04 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Salman
Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser

Good.

7 posted on 11/15/2024 9:14:26 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: central_va

Sorry wrong.
If you listened to JD Vance answer questions on Tariffs related to OIL you would know that when we import oil its often of low quality. So if you refine it (in TX) it produces a lot of pollution many times more than if we used our nice clean crude oil here in the USA.

The USA is very concerned about our planet maybe try looking at China and other countries they pollute so much more!

calm down and rest in the fact that conservatives DO want to save the planet but in a common sense way.

CD


8 posted on 11/15/2024 9:14:39 AM PST by Coffee_drinker (Drain The Swamp.)
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To: Salman
That result shouldn’t be too surprising. Every poll in recent years has shown climate change ranks near the bottom of voter concerns. Jobs, inflation and illegal immigration register much higher on the scale of concerns.

Ever notice how 'DEI hires' NEVER MADE THE POLLSTERS lists?

Or the sexual mutilation of children?

Or "boys who pretend they're girls" playing in girls sports?

OR FEMA Sh*T not assisting citizens who have Trump signs in their yards aftrer disasters

How come those issues never make the lists?

9 posted on 11/15/2024 9:17:24 AM PST by GOPJ (Offer illegals $2,000, free ticket home & place on list to come back IF they leave voluntarily )
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To: Sacajaweau

Amen to that!


10 posted on 11/15/2024 9:23:29 AM PST by Karoo
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To: Salman
“If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.”

That's one of many reasons why I voted for Trump.

11 posted on 11/15/2024 9:23:57 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Cats For Trump 2024!)
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To: Salman

If true, climate change would be affecting he planet and people way in the future.

But, ‘climate change’ has been affecting people currently and many years in the past...

from the huge expenditures dedicated to combating a made-up issue, where all of the many billions (perhaps trillions) of money could have been used to make people’s lives better now and in the past.

Nobody knows what the climate will be 50 years from now, but we do know that the climate does change and we can deal with it as it comes. So, wasting money on a future climate that is unknowable, is foolish.


12 posted on 11/15/2024 9:25:19 AM PST by adorno (CCH)
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To: Coffee_drinker

We are not going to save the planet.

Once you accept that simple fact life gets a lot easier.

Homo sapiens needs to get some real humility—and fast.


13 posted on 11/15/2024 9:26:36 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Coffee_drinker
Please explain why you do not feel "that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren’t much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now."   In the 1980's and the 1990's the impending Ice age was all the rage, then it changed to Global Warming until the Watermelon scammers decided to call it Climate Change to hedge their bets.   All of the man made efforts to protect us from so called Climate Change is guess what, changing the climate.   A pox on them all!
14 posted on 11/15/2024 9:30:25 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Salman

See tagline


15 posted on 11/15/2024 9:31:38 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: Salman

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all
kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes,
plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic
storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles; hundreds of thousands
of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors; worldwide
floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring
ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans
are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the
planet isn’t going anywhere. WE ARE!

— George Carlin


16 posted on 11/15/2024 9:32:17 AM PST by dagunk
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To: tet68
Agree 100%....

We have a situation locally (Upstate NY)...flooding....cuz Canada and USA regulated Great Lakes at a new level...and...created one great big flooding mess.

And Black creek overflows every hard rain. It should be able to be solved engineering wise...if someone would step up and think out of the box.

17 posted on 11/15/2024 9:35:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Salman

There were a LOT of election losers. Two were Kam and Tampon Tim.


18 posted on 11/15/2024 9:38:11 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: Salman

“If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.”

The USA needs to rid itself of the Commie Burn.


19 posted on 11/15/2024 9:41:07 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Salman

“The struggle against Climate Change is over.”

Good, Climate Change isn’t our enemy.


20 posted on 11/15/2024 9:53:56 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "Murica!")
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