{"id":288623,"date":"2023-11-25T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288623"},"modified":"2023-11-25T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:14:26","slug":"shocked-far-right-climate-deniers-get-more-votes-than-any-other-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288623","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShocked\u201d: Far right climate deniers get more votes than any other party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JoNova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everywhere there are free and fair elections and a politically biased media,\u00a0people will be shocked.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does \u201cfar right\u201d even mean when it applies to a quarter of the population?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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It means name-calling is embedded in our vocabulary. Geert Wilder\u2019s party has won 37 seats in the Netherlands election with 24% of the vote \u2014 more than any other party. There are 150 seats in total in the Dutch Parliament, so it\u2019s not clear what the final winning coalition will look like. What is clear is that environmentalists hate it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u20184 years of climate change denial\u2019:<\/a> Dutch environmental groups react to far-right election swing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Ian Smith, EuroNews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental groups have expressed shock and promised climate action in response to Dutch election results. Wednesday night saw the historic victory of the far right Party for Freedom (PVV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are shocked,\u201d Extinction Rebellion Netherlands<\/strong><\/a> says. \u201cThis outcome will likely mean a rollback of climate measures, new fossil investments, exclusion of marginalised groups, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If far-right<\/em> applies to a quarter of the population, and the Greens appeal to a much smaller slice, it\u2019s only fair they be called the extreme-left, yes?.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many votes is it worth when a party is gifted a \u201clabel\u201d by the media day in and day out. How many people would have voted for a \u201cCentre Right\u201d party who would not even consider \u201cthe far right\u201d? It could be a 2 \u2013 5% advantage right there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Left leaning players cheat and deceive with language every day, and the Right let them get away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We  need to fight for our language, for consistent words.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s mock the partisan reporters who keep calling the center Right, the far-right.<\/em> \u201cWe know which way you vote\u201d. Ask them to define their terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a trend across Europe \u2014 Victor Orban (Hungary), Geiorgia Meloni (Italy), Sweden, Finland\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geert Wilders\u2019 shock victory in the Netherlands creates fear as Europe eyes another hard-right win<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Bruno Waterfield, The Australian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once renowned for tolerance, stability, liberalism and its pro-European credentials, one of the EU\u2019s wealthiest nations is now a seething hotbed of discontent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it were only the Netherlands that would be bad enough, but most of the discontents and political trends that have propelled Wilders to victory are writ large across the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Geert Wilders and his team, and to Javier Milei who won 56% of the vote in Argentina this week too. In the latter\u2019s case, he\u2019s not just \u201cfar right\u201d but fully anti-science, according to Nature \u2014  <\/em>the science journal that appears to think science is defined by government funding, not by evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Extremely worrying\u2019: Argentinian researchers reel after election of anti-science president<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mart\u00edn De Ambrosio & Ferm\u00edn Koop, Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of his plan to address the country\u2019s economic crisis, Javier Milei has promised to slash research funding and shut down key science agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result brings much uncertainty for Argentina\u2019s science community. Milei and other members of his party, La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances), have pledged to<\/a> shut down or possibly privatize the country\u2019s main science agency, the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), as well as to eliminate the ministries of health, science and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So 56% of Argentian voters are climate skeptics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018A massive setback\u2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Milei has also called climate change is a \u201csocialist hoax\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, comments that have stirred concern in the science community. \u201cHis position is typical of a denier,\u201d says Matilde Rusticucci, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Buenos Aires<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good to know next time someone says a skeptic is unelectable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 For everyone asking about @geertwilderspvv<\/a>\u2019 stance on the #DutchFarmers<\/a>:

Wilders is 100% against the expropriation of our farmers and has stood up for them all along. \ud83d\ude9c

He and I shared a stage back in March when the protests were going on and he\u2019s vowed he\u2019ll do everything\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/C6BK0bTnXt<\/a><\/p>— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) November 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>