Fear Fail

Climate scare tactics aren't working:

The problem for the radical left is that Americans really aren’t connecting the wildfires with climate change, global warming, or whatever it's calling things these days. It was comical watching CNN grapple with the reality that its climate alarmism isn’t resonating with the American public. On Monday, Harry Enten and John Berman took a closer look at Google search data and polling trends, and they were shocked and clearly disappointed that the data indicates that while Americans are interested in wildfires they’re not buying the pitch that climate change is the culprit. Enten laid it out clearly: “Take a look at the monthly change in Google searches. Look at the searches for wildfire, up 2,400%. My goodness gracious! This is the most amount of people searching for wildfires ever, ever.” But when it comes to climate change? Crickets. “It’s actually down nine percent,” Enten admitted. Even in California, where the wildfires are raging, there’s been no spike in searches for climate change. His conclusion? “Americans are definitely interested in learning about these wildfires… but they are not making that connection with climate change. That’s the bottom line here.” Enten was genuinely baffled by this disconnect as if it’s unfathomable that people could be more interested in what’s actually happening in their communities than in buying into the narrative that every disaster is tied to human-caused climate change. The fearmongering hasn’t worked. Enten noted that despite decades of “extreme weather events” — hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires — Americans’ concern about climate change hasn’t budged. In 1991, 35% of Americans worried about climate change. By 2023, it was at 39%. “That is not statistically significantly different from this 35% back in 1991,” Enten admitted.

Maybe because what was predicted back then hasn't come to pass, either...