{"id":383230,"date":"2025-06-14T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383230"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:41:51","slug":"the-culture-war-on-climate-is-over-and-the-left-lost-it-the-day-they-started-lying-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383230","title":{"rendered":"The Culture War on Climate Is Over\u2014And the Left Lost It the Day They Started Lying About Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"383235\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=383235\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0,ChatGPT Image 14. Juni 2025, 09_40_35\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?fit=723%2C723&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?resize=723%2C723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-14.-Juni-2025-09_40_35.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">ChatGPT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/06\/12\/the-culture-war-on-climate-is-over-and-the-left-lost-it-the-day-they-started-lying-about-everything\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/jeeztheadmin\/\">Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Politico lament titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857\">\u201c\u2018We\u2019ve lost the culture war on climate\u2019\u201d<\/a>\u00a0offers a rare moment of clarity from within the echo chamber of environmental orthodoxy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"666\" data-attachment-id=\"383233\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=383233\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-297.png?fit=720%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-297.png?fit=720%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-297.png?resize=720%2C666&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-297.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-297.png?resize=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThere\u2019s no way around it,\u201d admits Jody Freeman, former climate advisor to Barack Obama. \u201cWe\u2019ve lost the culture war on climate, and we have to figure out a way for it to not be a niche leftist movement\u201d.<\/em><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she\u2014and the authors\u2014never pause to ask&nbsp;<em>why<\/em>&nbsp;the war was lost. The answer isn\u2019t about political maneuvering or industry lobbying. It\u2019s much simpler: the left sacrificed the last of its credibility during COVID, and no amount of apocalyptic climate branding can bring it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID: The Bonfire of the Authorities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same people who now ask Americans to trust sweeping climate rules are the ones who insisted lockdowns would \u201cstop the spread,\u201d that cloth masks were life-saving talismans, and that vaccines prevented transmission. They suppressed dissent, gaslit the public, and rewrote yesterday\u2019s lies into today\u2019s mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During COVID, the American public witnessed a catastrophic failure of expertise\u2014not in science per se, but in institutional honesty. Bureaucrats contradicted themselves weekly, all while pretending infallibility. \u201cThe science\u201d was less about the evidence and more about control. And when people began asking why, they were called dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now those same voices return with charts, forecasts, and pleas for regulation, insisting that failing to curb CO2 will be a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cFailing to curb power plants\u2019 pollution, scientists say, means temperatures will continue to rise and bring more of the floods, heat waves, wildfires, supply chain disruptions, food shortages and other shocks that cost the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars each year in property damage, illness, death and lost productivity.\u201d.<\/em><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-biden-obama-climate-regulations-legacy-00395857<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That narrative structure\u2014the breathless projection of catastrophe, the rigid insistence on compliance, the moral castigation of skeptics\u2014is precisely what Americans no longer believe. Because they\u2019ve seen the machinery behind it. And they\u2019re not going back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Market Reality, Not Mandates, Is Driving Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even Politico\u2019s own article unwittingly undermines its narrative. It acknowledges that coal use has plummeted\u2014from 48.5% of electricity in 2007 to just 15% in 2024\u2014while emissions from power plants have dropped by 38%. These outcomes didn\u2019t come from the Clean Power Plan, which never took effect. They came from natural gas abundance, fracking, and market evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This makes Freeman\u2019s despair particularly telling. It\u2019s not that emissions aren\u2019t falling. It\u2019s that people no longer think we need the state to manage every molecule to make it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2022\/06\/30\/boom-supreme-court-ruling-epa-doesnt-have-power-to-regulate-carbon-dioxide\/\">Even the Supreme Court, hardly a bastion of climate denial, ruled in 2022 that agencies like the EPA can\u2019t regulate major sectors of the economy without direct congressional authorization.&nbsp;<\/a>That wasn\u2019t climate skepticism. It was constitutional hygiene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likewise,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/06\/11\/trump-admin-moves-to-blow-up-bidens-assault-on-americas-power-grid\/\">the rollback of Biden\u2019s power plant rules by Trump\u2019s EPA<\/a>&nbsp;isn\u2019t radical. It\u2019s the legal and political reality catching up to a skeptical public\u2014one that now sees through the moral panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When Narrative Control Fails, the Spell Breaks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The left didn\u2019t just lose the policy fight. They lost control of the frame. And part of that collapse came from an unexpected source: the decensorship of Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Elon Musk took the reins of the world\u2019s most influential digital square, he didn\u2019t just fire a few moderators. He exposed a vast censorship regime\u2014one in which government agencies, NGOs, and media gatekeepers worked to suppress dissent. This included not just COVID heresies but also climate skepticism, criticism of electric vehicle mandates, and questions about energy grid reliability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suddenly, voices long deemed \u201cdangerous\u201d were heard again. Questions that were once unspeakable became unignorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn\u2019t just about free speech for its own sake. It was about breaking the illusion of consensus. Musk didn\u2019t create a movement; he let the light in on one that already existed, long denied by a rigged system. And once people saw it, they couldn\u2019t unsee it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Control Versus Trust<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Politico piece is filled with laments over lost tools of control. Court rulings. Congressional gridlock. Executive rollback. But the unspoken truth is this: those tools only worked when they were shielded by trust. And trust died not with a bang, but with a thousand flip-flops\u2014on masks, on mandates, on lockdowns, on model projections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, climate advocates find themselves in the same boat, still peddling apocalyptic certainty while the public shrugs. They\u2019ve been told the end is nigh for decades. They\u2019ve watched the goalposts move. They\u2019ve endured every hot day being labeled a harbinger of doom\u2014only to see emissions fall and prosperity continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019ve also noticed that every \u201csolution\u201d somehow involves more regulation, less choice, and more power for the people who got it wrong last time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You Can\u2019t Guilt People Who No Longer Trust You<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politico\u2019s article ends by framing the next four years as potentially \u201clost\u201d on climate. But that assumes something essential: that the public still wants to be led by the same cast of characters. They don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The war is over not because people deny that climate changes, or that humans play a role. It\u2019s over because they deny the&nbsp;<em>credibility<\/em>&nbsp;of those claiming to solve it. The culture war wasn\u2019t lost in a courtroom. It was lost in the empty supermarket aisles of lockdown-era America, and in the liberated feed of a post-censorship Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can\u2019t guilt people who no longer trust you. You can\u2019t control a culture that no longer listens. And you can\u2019t regulate your way out of a credibility crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way forward is honesty, humility, and a firm end to the presumption that \u201cthe experts\u201d always know best. Until then, the war is not just lost\u2014it\u2019s unwinnable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Politico lament titled\u00a0\u201c\u2018We\u2019ve lost the culture war on climate\u2019\u201d\u00a0offers a rare moment of clarity from within the echo chamber of environmental 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