{"id":332428,"date":"2024-06-11T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332428"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:11:44","slug":"despite-the-hottest-year-in-a-hundred-thousand-years-europeans-voted-for-maligned-climate-denying-far-right-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332428","title":{"rendered":"Despite the hottest year in a hundred thousand years, Europeans voted for maligned, climate denying, far right parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spell is broken<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thirty years of crafting a fantasy narrative was fine while countries floated on a cloud of endless easy money, but those days are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counting is still underway in the EU elections, but the Greens appear to have lost around 20 seats, shrinking from 74 seats<\/a> to 53. In Germany, the Green-stranglehold of Europe, exit polls suggest the Green vote fell from 20.5% to 12%<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a shock, Marine Le Pen\u2019s party in France doubled Macron\u2019s party vote achieving 30% of the vote to his 15%, whereupon Macron called an emergency election, hoping to save a few extra spots in France\u2019s Parliament before the \u201cFar Right\u201d really wakes up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cFar-Right\u201d of course, being any party which doubts that bicycles can stop storms:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Despite 242% of Nobel prize winning experts being certain that life on Earth will be destroyed by 2034*, climate action was not a priority for most Europeans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Far-right gains in EU election deal stunning defeats to France\u2019s Macron and Germany\u2019s Scholz | AP News<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper journalists though have different priorities to most voters. There go those climate ambitions\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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European election results spark fears over weakening climate ambitions (cnbc.com)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some newspapers don\u2019t just have different priorities, they speak a different language:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fears for Green Deal as number of MEPs from climate-denying parties set to rise | Green politics | The Guardian<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Who are these parties that deny that we have a climate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years ago The Guardian<\/em> called it a \u201cQuiet Revolution Sweeping Europe\u201d<\/a> as the Greens went from fringe idealists to \u201cpotential kingmakers\u201d. Instead it was a five year reckless experiment that trashed historic industries and threatens a lifestyle that took a thousand years to create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real Kingmakers in the EU who were panicking about climate change last week, are now suddenly non-committal about inviting the Greens to talks<\/a>. It was always about power for Ursula Von der Leyen and sadly she is still there. There is still much to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wonderful Mark Steyn on the EU elections and the media massaging:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, between [Marine Le Pen\u2019s] triumphant National Rally and M Zemour\u2019s Reconqu\u00eate (the Reconquest party), what the BBC and even the Telegraph<\/em> insist on calling the \u201cfar right<\/a>\u201d got just shy of forty per cent of the vote. (M Zemour\u2019s party is for those who think Mme Le Pen is no longer \u201cfar right\u201d enough.) In Germany Olaf Scholz saw his party come third, behind the even more \u201cfar right\u201d Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland. Over a million of Scholz\u2019s voters switched to the ooh-ever-so-far-right AfD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the \u201cfar right\u201d are getting a lot nearer: maybe the Telegraph<\/em> should try holding the telescope the right way round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the media took consolation in finding the far-right rampage didn\u2019t go quite as far as it might: in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders\u2019 Freedom Party has gone from zero seats to six to emerge as the largest single Dutch party in the European Parliament \u2013 but all the experts are agreed that for some reason this is a wee bit of an under-performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: Good news, the young voters are turning away:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[Google translated]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greens with massive losses \u2013<\/a> especially young voters turn away<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The AfD and CDU are particularly popular with young voters. Voting right is not a trend, but rather a matter of self-defence. The Greens are the main losers, as they have become the epitome of philistinism. They get the ridicule of the internet for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both parties have lost their magic. Now things are getting even worse for the Greens. The new youth parties are called AfD and CDU. Of all things! Anyone who joins the Junge Union or the Workers\u2019 Party for Germany today is a revolutionary. The middle class is green, or better said: the bourgeoisie. And who is alternative if they are on the side of the philistines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most young people, however, it is clear that they will not retire at 70, they will not buy a house, and they may not be able to support a family \u2013 and if they do, their children will grow up in problem areas, in rural wasteland or in an environment of left-wing indoctrination. Voting right is not a trend, not chic, not a whim. It is pure self-defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all (in German)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Willie Soon, Krishna Gans, Old Ozzie, David Wojick, Kim, Stephen Neil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*How many climate experts said Antonio-Guterres Mr-Boiling-Planet was wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far-Right-Bell curve original author unknown.<\/a> Seen on this tweet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thirty years of crafting a fantasy narrative was fine while countries floated on a cloud of endless easy money, but those days are over.<\/p>\n

Counting is still underway in the EU elections, but the Greens appear to have lost around 20 seats, shrinking from\u00a074 seats\u00a0to 53. In Germany, the Green-stranglehold of Europe, exit polls suggest the Green\u00a0vote fell from 20.5% to 12%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":332445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829146,691829148,691829145,691829147,691820172],"class_list":{"0":"post-332428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-denying","9":"tag-eu-elections","10":"tag-europeans","11":"tag-far-right-parties","12":"tag-the-greens","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/00European_Election_Germany_50182-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1732&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1otK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":288623,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288623","url_meta":{"origin":332428,"position":0},"title":"\u201cShocked\u201d: Far right climate deniers get more votes than any other party","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By JoNova Everywhere there are free and fair elections and a politically biased media,\u00a0people will be shocked. 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