By Jo Nova
Politico doesn’t even know what “Culture” is (or Science)
They were paid millions by the USAID Blob as a fake news outlet, but even Politico has finally been dragged by its fingernails to admit something, anything, is not quite working for them in climate politics.
But make no mistake, this is not a mea culpa, it is just damage control, years after they really lost the culture war. After all, two years ago in March 2023, fully 60% of American voters already thought Climate science was more like a religion. And in any case, Donald Trump called climate change a hoax in 2016, and American voters elected him President.
But here the Blob Media are, trying to sell themselves as the firemen hosing down the global inferno.
h/t to Climate Depot
As if they give a damn about “Culture”:
“‘We’ve lost the culture war on climate” they say, but in the article they say nothing at all about culture and everything about federal regulators, funding for junkets, tax breaks and incentives. Culture is apparently just about The Money, The Rules, The Blob.
The big news here is not that Politico is reporting something meaningful, it’s that its role is shifting to “damage control”. This article is the closest thing they can think of for an excuse. They won’t admit they lost the science debate, or that the experts were wrong, or that CO2 is free fertilizer, or that Net Zero targets were futile. Instead, years too late, they’re pretending to care about culture while they demonstrate they just care about the money.
President Donald Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The United States is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming.
More than 15 years after federal regulators officially recognized that greenhouse gas pollution threatens “current and future generations,” their most ambitious efforts to defuse that threat have been blocked in the courts and by Trump’s rule-slicing buzzsaw. Wednesday’s action by the Environmental Protection Agency would extend that streak by wiping out a Biden-era regulation on power plants — leaving the nation’s second-largest source of climate pollution unshackled until at least the early 2030s.
“Culture” is just an excuse to cover up a complete backdown on a stupid policy:
“There’s no way around it: The left strategy on climate needs to be rethought,” said Jody Freeman, who served as counselor for energy and climate change in President Barack Obama’s White House. “We’ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement.”
So to avoid being irrelevant, they need to do what the skeptics said all along, “use gas”:
It’s a strategy Freeman admitted she was “struggling” to articulate, but one that included using natural gas as a “bridge fuel” to more renewable power — an approach Democrats embraced during the Obama administration — finding “a new approach” for easing permits for energy infrastructure and building broad-based political support.
Basically, this is Politico trying to show the Bloblings and climate fan-boys how to frame a big backdown as if it’s just a shift in “the culture war” not an admission that they were wrong.
The truth is that they lost the science war long before they lost the culture war:
It’s been bad for believers ever since the ice cores showed temperatures rise before carbon dioxide does, and by hundreds of years, and we’ve known that since 2003. The only signature of catastrophe that mattered was the upper tropospheric hot spot, which was totally missing in 2005 and is still missing, (it was the only fingerprint they said that counted, right up until they couldn’t find it).
The data kept backing the skeptical side: 3,000 ocean buoys, 6,000 boreholes, a thousand tide gauges, and 28 million weather balloons. The ocean warming isn’t statistically significant, sea-levels started rising before we even built the coal plants, and still aren’t rising fast enough. The Holocene was wickedly hot for thousands of years, and they don’t know why.
Antarctica was supposed to be warming faster than almost anywhere but they were totally wrong. The only part of Antarctica that was warming was sitting on top of a volcano chain they prefer not to tell you about.
The climate experts still can’t predict the climate on a local, regional, or continental scale, they don’t know why global warming slowed for years, or the world was warm in medieval times. And all along some of their best scientists were hiding data, declines, history, adjustments and methods.
In 2007 30,000 scientists signed a petition skeptical of global warming, By 2012 two thirds of engineers and geologists in Canada were skeptics.
But Politico won’t report this — it doesn’t suit the narrative.
Teach the children. The big lies of the Blob Media are what they don’t say.