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Posted on 06/18/2026 6:24:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I have often noted that the climate scam and the associated forced energy transition would of necessity go away at some point because the proposals being advocated to “save the planet” could never possibly work. But the open question has always been, when that happens, what will it look like? Would all the big enviro groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club all go on national TV one night and admit that the whole thing was a fake scare from the beginning? In the real world, that’s not how these things happen. People who have staked out absurd positions somehow need to save face. So there would have to be some sort of gradual process of backing down.
And thus we come to the key role of the New York Times for the Left, which is to mold and convey the official talking points to the team’s candidates and influencers. How about sharing some instruction on how to quietly back away from the Green New Deal?
Today on page A-12 of the print edition there is a piece with the headline “Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They’re Not So Sure.” The subheadline is “As the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change.” The online version indicates that the piece first appeared there five days ago, June 11. They held it for the print edition until today, and then buried it deeply on page A-12. The casual reader may not get that far, but the person who will see it is the party apparatchik who needs direction from central headquarters. Excerpt:
With voters worried about spiking gas prices and inflation, some [Democratic Party] leaders argue that they should stop trying to throttle oil and gas, which heat the planet when burned. It’s a rejection of the approach taken during the Biden administration, which treated climate change as an existential threat and tried to stop new drilling and pipelines. . . . The result could be a less ambitious climate agenda if the party returns to power in Washington. . . . Now many Democrats argue that the path back to power means abandoning some of their most aggressive stances on climate change.
The piece is filled with useful pointers in how to tone down the catastrophism. Most of that seems to involve an end to vilifying oil and gas, while continuing to promote wind and solar as the “cheapest” ways to produce electricity. (They still haven’t figured out that by the time you include costs of integrating wind and solar into the grid, those things are a far more expensive way to produce electricity than fossil fuels.). Here are some of the pointers:
- “Rather than pushing green solutions only, many Democrats say they have a better way to bridge the gap: Be the party of yes to all forms of energy. After all, they argue, wind and solar power are often the cheapest forms of electricity and the fastest to deploy. On an even playing field, they say, renewables would beat fossil fuels.”
- “We shouldn’t be against the domestic oil and gas industry, but we have to be for the energy transition,” said Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist. “Democrats should be running toward that instead of away from it.”
- Rahm Emanuel, the former congressman, chief of staff to President Barack Obama and mayor of Chicago who is exploring a 2028 White House run, said Democrats need to focus on household budgets, specifically electric and gas bills.“I’m not against talking about climate policy, but you’ve got to talk about it as energy and energy prices,” Mr. Emanuel said, “and you talk about it as it relates to protecting ratepayers.”
And if you stop vilifying the oil and gas industries, you can even start taking their money!:
[Recently] in California, . . . Tom Steyer, a champion of fighting global warming, was edged out of this month’s gubernatorial primary by Xavier Becerra. Mr. Becerra, a moderate Democrat, questioned the state’s most stringent climate goals, like ending sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, and received donations from oil and gas companies.
If the Democratic candidates are getting this message, it could be that the climate scare suddenly mostly disappears from the upcoming midterm elections. Wouldn’t that be an incredible change!
On the other hand, so far this is just about messaging. Even if the messaging changes, that does not mean that the goals of the Democrats on taking power will have changed. Certainly, over in the Endangerment Finding litigation, dozens of enviro groups and all the blue states continue to argue that atmospheric CO2 (the product of use of fossil fuels) is a “danger” to human health and welfare. Where Democrats rule, the destructive policies will continue until either there is some sort of catastrophic grid failure or the costs become too wildly excessive to credibly blame on some bogeyman.
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Manhattan Contrarian ping
It’ll be back. It’s like a bad horror movie monster — it gets killed off, then takes shape again, regaining its power to terrorize the next ignorant generation.
Nope! Just the other day an unknown blob in the Atlantic foretells a cooler cycle coming. In a couple hundred years or something. 😵
Slowly but the true climate cultists are still holding hard to their phony, pseudo-scientific religion.
Just three days ago there was a brush fire that burned a couple houses in Spokane, WA.
Where they had a very wet spring.
Plus the previous winter they received very little snow.
The ski areas out west were really hurting last season.
This most likely will be another bad fire season in the Rocky mountains, Pacific NW, and NW Canada. So, ALL the Global Warming/Climate change promoters will be back very soon. Just give it a few weeks.
The Democrat “issue” playbook—in this case the issue will be “Save the Unicorns”.
—Have the government and corporate “friends” fund studies proving the Unicorns are going extinct and need to be saved. Academic whores are a dime a dozen—easy peasy.
—Have mass media allies cover these “studies” en masse and propagandized the masses.
—Have street protests including lots of kids with “Save the Unicorns” and “Corporations are destroying Unicorns” signs—of course with massive media coverage.
—Put “Save the Unicorns” on Democrat talking points and platforms. Have every Dem politician include it in speeches and other communications.
—Educate kids of the value of Unicorns and the critical need to save them. The teacher’s unions push this issue hard and get it into every classroom they can reach.
—A generation of brainwashed kids push “Save the Unicorns” which lead to federal and state programs spending billions of dollars on the “program”.
—Thousands of non profits spring up to take the government money and have their leaders live high on the hog (or should I say riding high on a Unicorn).
—Viciously attack anyone who questions the existence of Unicorns as a “hater” and “ignornant” rube who refuses to “follow the science”.
This is how it is done—and oh yeah by the time they are finished a bunch of Freepers will be insisting Unicorns are real and claiming only “idiots” believe otherwise.
They’re laying low. Waiting until Gavin Newsom gets in the White House.
I loved this passage they quoted from the NYT:
"...“Rather than pushing green solutions only, many Democrats say they have a better way to bridge the gap: Be the party of yes to all forms of energy. After all, they argue, wind and solar power are often the cheapest forms of electricity and the fastest to deploy. On an even playing field, they say, renewables would beat fossil fuels...”
Never give up The Con. Never.
They say that with a straight face, knowing it fully that without subsidies, wind and solar are not even in the same universe when it comes to being competitive with other forms of energy production. And even with those subsidies, even if it includes storage systems to make it more reliable, that only makes it far, FAR less competitive.
These people pushing this are the exact same kind of people who planned, "financed", and built the Obama "Presidential" Library, a spectacle I am rather enjoying observing because it exposes all these "qualities" of "The Smartest People In The Room".
The Leftists, "The Smartest People In The Room", planned it poorly, lied to people in the area about it, TOOK the land via a corrupt political process with local officials, didn't fund it appropriately, hired the worst brutalist architects who lean so far into Statist that their design resembles a Nazi Flak Tower, ran far over a not existent budget, didn't collect enough from their fawning "donors", Didn't fund the trust, stabbed ostensible local supporters in the backs, stiffed their contractors who worked on it, and removed the land access from locals against their will.
This is simply typical. And these are the same people, EXACTLY the same people, who pushed the Climate Change Alarmism Hoax, and who want to tell you how best to fix it and run it.
THE EXACT SAME PEOPLE.
The scam will crop back up again b3cause they are now floating a new scam, in a “Large Blob” of cold air over the ocean that “could bring cooling” by 2030 or sumthin
Where’s Greta Thunberg?
The last I heard from her, she was sailing on boats to Gaza to protest against Israel. But she had nothing to say about the carbon footprint of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Has she abandoned global warming? Or is the media just not paying attention to her anymore?
Nice summary!
Elon Musk switching sides sped up the process.
forced to choose between the lie of global warming and hating Trump and opposing anything associated with him.
The left gave up on the global warming lie
HOW DARE YOU!
The question is...what are we all going to do with these revelations?
They keep flip-flopping as more data come in to debunk their theories - first it was global cooling, then global warming - now they use the general term “climate change.”
“Climate Change” is not about climate change at all - it is about implementing government tyranny in the name of “climate change.”
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