There's been a lot of bad news lately for supporters of the climate agenda and net-zero policies. COP29, the United Nations' annual climate conference, has failed to live up to campaigners' ideals. [emphasis, links added]
The United Nations admitted in October that no progress had been made towards net-zero emissions. In the United States, voters elected a president who blatantly calls climate change a hoax.
Gabriella Hoffman, Director of the Energy and Conservation Center at the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) Just news That Climate change is only a minor issue on voters' minds, while the state of the economy and inflation are issues that influence their decisions.
“The American public has made its voice heard and repudiated all of these net-zero climate policies of the Biden-Harris administration over the past four years,” Hoffman said.
Not afraid
Despite signs that the climate agenda is no longer selling, at least not in the way anti-fossil fuel advocates hope, Many pro-climate politicians and activists have vowed to keep fighting as if the election and public opinion were still in their favour.
“President-elect Trump won the election, but his billionaire oil and gas cronies can’t govern,” Manish Bapna, chairman of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said on November 5, the day Trump Claimed on the day he won re-election.
Bapna vowed that the Natural Resources Defense Council would step up its litigation efforts and resist any attempts to overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s climate agenda.
“If he [Trump] We will defend the environment and public health in the court of public opinion and our courts,” Bapna said.
The NRDC release does not provide any data to support the organization's anti-fossil fuel stance.
Polls consistently show that voters are worried about climate change, but the issue is far down on their list of priorities.
Surveys asking Americans how much they are willing to spend to combat climate change have found support is falling rapidly.
A 2021 Competitive Enterprise Institute poll found that only 17% of people spend $1 to $10 per month on this issue. A September New York Times/Siena College poll found that two-thirds of likely voters support increasing domestic fossil fuel production.
Despite Trump’s campaign promise to end support for offshore wind power, Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said last week that the state would continue its efforts to build offshore wind farms.
“Mark my words: We're going to show them. Because we're moving forward. We're going to show them,” Healy said at an event in Taunton on Tuesday, referring to widespread skeptics. “We're going to get this done and people are going to support it,” Healey reportedly said. cape cod times.
Two days after the election, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat and co-chair of the U.S. Climate Alliance, said Their commitment to the climate agenda has not been shaken by Trump’s electoral victory.
“New York's climate agenda will not be paused by the election,” Hochul said in the coalition's statement. Grisham made a similar promise. “No matter what difficulties we encounter, our commitment will not waver and our progress will not stop,” she said.
climate election deniers
Larry Behrens, communications director for the energy advocacy nonprofit Power The Future, called these politicians and activists “climate election deniers.”
“The fact that they are willing to ignore the voices of the U.S. election proves that they are just as out of touch with us as we've always known them to be. Just three weeks ago, Americans took a poll that overwhelmingly rejected the claims of the environmental left. They should be looking for ways to listen to the American public rather than trying to subvert the election results. behrens told Just news.
Even as trust in the media reaches an all-time low, the media is likely to continue to drive the climate agenda.
Anti-fossil fuel groups directly fund many media outlets, such as the Associated Press, and they also fund organizations like Covering Climate Now, which provide advocacy resources to journalists covering climate and energy.
The organization works with more than 600 news organizations to encourage journalists to maintain bias when reporting on climate change and energy issues.
After the election, the group doubled down on its call for journalists to continue pushing the climate agenda.
In its weekly newsletter, “Climate Report Now” believes that Trump did not win the popular vote, so there is no voter mandate.
“Climate news may become more integrated into existing stories. If so, then all journalists, not just dedicated climate journalists, will be more important than ever, Connect climate to the day's news, whether it's extreme weather or mass deportations, affordable insurance or public health,“The organization told journalists at its 600 partner outlets.
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