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Posted on 12/15/2025 9:25:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
After decades of climate panic, the left quietly abandoned the weather—proof its causes shift not with science or facts, but with whatever outrage best sustains power, protest, and cultural revolt.
“Stand with Ukraine! Free Palestine! No one is illegal!”
Did I forget any other empty slogans? For the last eight years, the basement-dwelling interlocutors of the left have screamed and yelled for revolution, bearing their signs, blocking the streets, and bawling in front of politicians’ homes.
Conservatives and the general public have endured these mantras blasted all over social media and the airwaves. These empty epithets have dominated college campuses, overwhelmed classrooms and public squares, and featured prominently in debates, podcasts, and talk shows.
The left never tires of finding causes to fight for. Whatever declares war on the West, undermines natural law and basic reality, and places power above principle, the left lines up for the kill.
But there’s one slogan that has disappeared, one fight that has fizzled out:
The Climate Change Cult.
For the last twenty years, ever since Al Gore ended up without a job, liberal elites have clamored about the threats of global warming, rising sea levels, the carbon dioxide explosion in the skies, and that we had to do something, anything! before catastrophe struck.
Now, no one seems to care about the weather, least of all the left.
What happened?
Matt Ridley posits that the relentless doom and gloom tired out voters, who tuned out of hearing “The sky is falling!” because the sky was not falling.
I am sure the disproven blather about the polar ice caps disappearing in 2013 convinced people, too, as they are still shining, chilling, gelling, and taking up more space in Antarctica and the Arctic.
But here’s the thing: in 2014 and beyond, academics, pundits, and politicians were still raising widespread alarm about climate change, long after failed former Vice President Gore’s catastrophic conclusions melted away. I recall attending a campaign event for Marianne Williamson, a Tea Party of the left congressional candidate in Palos Verdes, CA, in 2014. She was passionate about climate change, and when I pressed her on the fact that most climate change fearmongering never came to pass, she cited a piddling study from the Los Angeles Times and then received a round of applause from her sycophant audience. After the meeting, three Boomers rushed up to me, trying to agitate me about the climate crisis and that we need to see the world through different eyes and try to understand their weathered fears and complaints.
Yeah, sure, whatever.
After Trump won his first term in 2016, he followed through on a key campaign promise to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. Leftists took to the streets denouncing Orange Man Bad. Weekly marches bellowing about Evil Trump often included denunciations of his climate denialism.
Only after Election 2024 have we witnessed the marked decline in crying about the climate. The “No Kings” protests never mention it. There’s more to this political climate change than the fact that voters focused on other issues: crime, immigration, and the economy. After all, climate alarmists screamed about the weather for decades, whether the voters paid attention or not.
It’s not about the voters turning a deaf ear to the climate cult. It’s not the affordability issues that took everyone’s attention away from the weather. If we want to understand why climate change no longer matters to the left, look no further than Greta Thunberg.
A little background on the socially autistic Swedish girl manipulated for left-wing propaganda purposes is in order.
In 2019, she burst onto the stage, blurting out with staged outrage, “Entire ecosystems are collapsing, and all you care about is money! How dare you?!” Sure, she was reading from a script, and she was making a fool of herself, but it’s easy for a fool with a global megaphone to lead all the climate fools to buy into the message.
For four years, she wailed that all of us selfish people needed to stop using fossil fuels to stop the coming ecosystem carnage. She charmed corporate media, and San Francisco made a mural in her honor.
Then came October 7, 2023.
Suddenly, the Arab-Israeli conflict dominated the news, the college discussions, and the public square. The festering outrages over Israel (or Palestine) seized all the attention with growing contention.
The racialized, ethnic bigotry-based left found its key issue to build on the diminishing returns of Black Lives Matter. Let’s not forget that BLM activists had found time to squeeze in complaints about Israel and demand justice for Palestine while demanding the defunding of the police, the abolition of prisons, and the incarceration of all police officers (make it make sense!).
What’s more, disarrayed dissidents on the right, who harbor embittered sentiments toward Jews, found this new left-wing public outcry over Gaza to their liking, and they allied their hatred with them by bashing the IDF, but slipped in some Jew hatred without retribution.
Most importantly, Greta Thunberg went from screaming about the skies and the rising temperatures and sea levels to excoriating the so-called genocide in Gaza perpetrated by Israel. She even made a few trips to Gaza for the cause!
Add to this development the fact that climate change activists have witnessed their funding streams cut off because of Trump’s cost-cutting reforms. USAID funding propped up much of this climate alarmism, no doubt. All gone! Most of the indoctrination for climate alarmism came from the universities, and they are facing financial freefall from the Trump Administration. Promoting Islamic terror has its drawbacks, including massive cuts to funding for all programs, especially the push for climate change terror. No doubt, rising energy prices have pushed astroturf perennial activists to rethink their demands for an eco-friendly earth.
But the main issue is the all-consuming focus on Palestine. Thunberg’s transition galvanized the new fight and paved over climate alarmism. The all-consuming outrage about Jews and Israel and the broad opposition to Zionism is the main left-wing bugaboo now, crystallizing a surging hatred of mainstream America and the West with a stronger following and broader global support than climate alarmism could ever conjure up.
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The NGOs funding the protests lost their funding.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution (and the graft).
CA gas prices ae exploding as refineries are shutting down and they are making no movement to change this. Climate Change is a religious cult that is not going away anytime soon.
They are determinized to drag us into another stone age.
It's easier to "fight" for a "cause" if you think someone else is paying for it. But when you realize that you're the one paying for it, you tend to be more particular about making sure the cause is both real and just. The fake global warmageddon doomsday cult is neither real nor just.
“The NGOs funding the protests lost their funding.”
Bingo.
The globalist climate cult is not dead
Trump has simply put them on the back foot for a period
They will be back. They’ve already invested too much in propaganda and their agent networks, and there is too much power, money and control at stake for them to give up now.
I remember an article by some MIT researchers in the late 1990s. They found that scientists that supported GW got grants but those that didn’t lost grants.
They are all over the place spreading fear stories, check MSN.
Yes, they are still around and the population in Blue states like New Mexico still have to put up with the insanity. Some examples: 43% of new vehicles sold in 2026 must be EV’s; new homes must be hard wired to support EV charging; gas prices poised to rise 50 cents due to state clean fuel mandates; reliable coal plants shut down to be replaced by windmills everywhere and acres and acres of solar panels.
A Texas utility is building a new gas powered power plant within five miles of the NM border, but in NM solar panels will provide their power. In rate making they point out that it will be NM users who will pay for solar panels construction, maintenance and power costs; Texas ratepayers will not be charged for that mandatory generation.
Finally, NM is #2 in the nation in crude oil production but the enviro-radicals in Santa Fe, while loving the billions in surplus dollars to pay for socialist giveaways, fight to ban treatment of salt water produced with the oil for use in non-drinking water uses (industry, agriculture and now AI data centers). All in their minds to help kill the fossil fuel industry. The untreated water is either being injected for disposal underground (think earthquakes) or shipped to Texas where taxpayers have approved treatment as one part of a comprehensive program to enhance the water supply.
ALL of them are now employed by Washington state government or the Seattle Times?
Washington state is currently enduring record rain fall in the upper northwest region.
We have had moderate drought in western Washington (more serious drought in naturally dry east Washington) for three years.
Cause - Climate Change!
Cause of current record rain fall?
Climate Change!
Seattle Seahawks (NFL) current 11-3 record?
Climate Change!
No, YOU are not intended to survive the downturn. If a stone age is achieved the commie trash will rebuild.
:)
When night approaches - we prepare for it.
When daylight approaches - we prepare for it.
When winter approaches - we prepare for it.
When spring approaches - we prepare for it.
When floods come - we evacuate.
When earthquakes come, we evacuate.
When hurricanes come, we evacuate.
When climate change approaches - we try to stop it.
We stopped tossing people into volcanoes to try to stop them a long time ago.
The cult runs on money. As the money goes elsewhere, the cult will be left with a residue of dead-end true believers. They will lose their political clout and become irrelevant. Their only hope will be to cling to life and hope for a return to leftwing democrat rule. Even that will be uncertain, as the leftists may have a whole new priority by 2028.
All these manufactured crises have the identical solution: worldwide neo-feudalism, led by a tiny, pampered elite consisting of the people howling the loudest about it, and the people financing them.
exactly! just like Jessie Jackson’s graft where big companies were blackmailed into payoffs to further DEI.
eventually people tire of the grift.
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