{"id":455738,"date":"2026-07-15T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=455738"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:00:27","slug":"climate-retreat-documented-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=455738","title":{"rendered":"Climate Retreat Documented in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"485\" data-attachment-id=\"455740\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=455740\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?fit=1168%2C784&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1168,784\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 Climate Retreat Documented in the New York Times\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?fit=723%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?resize=723%2C485&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-455740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?resize=640%2C430&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-Climate-Retreat-Documented-in-the-New-York-Times.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/new-york-times\/climate-retreat-nyt-has-noticed\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/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\">\u201cDemocrats and environmentalists are shifting their approach to climate change\u2026. It\u2019s a rejection of the approach taken during the Biden administration, which treated climate change as an existential threat and tried to stop new drilling and pipelines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer,&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;(below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was \u201call of the above\u201d on the way up, and it is \u201call of the above\u201d on the way down. Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/11\/climate\/democrats-climate-change-oil-gas.html\">Democrats Once Vowed to Stop Oil and Gas. Now They\u2019re Not So Sure<\/a>\u201d (<em>New York Times<\/em>, June 11, 2026) is worth revisiting to document the sea change that has occurred in the Democrat party away from climate alarmism and forced energy transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the midterm elections approach, many leading Democrats are rethinking their approach to climate change,\u201d the article begins.<\/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\">Democrats and environmentalists are shifting their approach to climate change, as the economic fallout from war in the Middle East has reshuffled the politics of energy. With voters worried about spiking gas prices and inflation, some of the party\u2019s leaders argue that they should stop trying to throttle oil and gas, which heat the planet when burned. It\u2019s a rejection of the approach taken during the Biden administration, which treated climate change as an existential threat and tried to stop new drilling and pipelines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continuing:<\/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\">The most recent example came in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/09\/us\/steve-hilton-california-governor-xavier-becerra.html\">California<\/a>, where Tom Steyer, a champion of fighting global warming, was edged out of this month\u2019s gubernatorial primary by Xavier Becerra. Mr. Becerra, a moderate Democrat, questioned the state\u2019s most stringent climate goals, like ending sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, and received donations from oil and gas companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the Northeast, Democratic governors have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/11\/climate\/northeast-climate-goals-trump.html\">started to consider gas pipeline expansions<\/a>, once unthinkable in the most climate-conscious states in the country. Even climate hawks in Congress have shifted their tactics, lawmakers said in recent interviews. And though the co-sponsors of the Green New Deal in 2019, Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, still rail against the fossil fuel industry, they rarely emphasize their once-influential plan to mobilize the U.S. economy to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe result could be a less ambitious climate agenda if the party returns to power in Washington,\u201d Friedman and Plumer state.<\/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\">Now many Democrats argue that the path back to power means abandoning some of their most aggressive stances on climate change. When they do promote renewable energy, they frame it as a way to lower electric bills and avoid the gas pump, not because of the effects on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some environmental activists are muting their demands to keep fossil fuels \u201cin the ground,\u201d a rallying cry that had defined the climate movement for more than a decade. \u201cIt\u2019s something we are struggling with,\u201d acknowledged Cassidy DiPaola, a spokeswoman for Fossil Free Media, a nonprofit group that wants to rapidly end the use of coal, oil and gas. \u201cWe are still committed as a movement to the ideas of keeping it in the ground, but as a campaign message, it\u2019s more effective to talk about building clean energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What an about-face, \u201ca far cry from 2020, when activists pressured Democratic presidential candidates to forswear oil and gas donations,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/22\/climate\/biden-climate-change.html\">blackball anyone with a fossil fuel past<\/a>&nbsp;from cabinet positions, and commit to eliminating the nation\u2019s planet-warming emissions in just a few decades.\u201d<\/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\">Democrats are trying to figure out how to talk about a problem that many voters still say they want to see the government tackle, but without opening candidates to attacks from Republicans calling them out of touch. Mr. Markey said he isn\u2019t abandoning the Green New Deal and legislation he has sponsored to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/1115\/text?s=1&amp;r=2&amp;hl=%22keep+it+in+the+ground%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing<\/a>. But these days, he said, \u201cI talk about the positive vision for what clean energy represents as a solution to the affordability crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The public is on the side of the climate skeptics, whose arguments against climate exaggeration have broken through the constituencies of the Climate Industrial Complex.<\/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\">A recent Economist\/YouGov Poll showed that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net\/documents\/econtoplines_XJr0jxS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just 5 percent of Americans<\/a>&nbsp;say climate change is their top voting issue. By contrast, 29 percent say their top priority is inflation and prices, and 13 percent cite jobs and the economy. A number of strategists have urged Democrats to stop talking about the issues that excite already-committed voters and broaden their appeal\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer continue:<\/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\">Rather than pushing green solutions only, many Democrats say they have a better way to bridge the gap: Be the party of yes to all forms of energy. After all, they argue, wind and solar power are often the cheapest forms of electricity and the fastest to deploy. On an even playing field, they say, renewables would beat fossil fuels. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be against the domestic oil and gas industry, but we have to be for the energy transition,\u201d said Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic strategist. \u201cDemocrats should be running toward that instead of away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Call that bluff. If renewables are really cheaper and naturally better than fossil fuels, it&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;time for \u201can even playing field.\u201d Repeal the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/solar-power-issues\/solar-tax-credits-1978-2026-never-enough\/\">Investment Tax Credit<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/production-tax-credit-ptc\/wind-tax-credit-history\/\">Production Tax Credit<\/a>, and ditch what is left of the (misnamed) Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new political reality was evident in the last election, Friedman and Plumer note.<\/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\">Almost immediately after the 2024 election, some strategists argued that Democrats should&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/17\/us\/politics\/democrats-liberals-jentleson-searchlight.html\">stop talking about the threat of<\/a>&nbsp;global warming altogether. A growing number of Democratic politicians agree. Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona said recently he and many others aren\u2019t discussing climate change during the midterm election season because \u201cwe want to win.\u201d Rahm Emanuel \u2026 who is exploring a 2028 White House run, said Democrats need to focus on household budgets, specifically electric and gas bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not against talking about climate policy, but you\u2019ve got to talk about it as energy and energy prices,\u201d Mr. Emanuel said, \u201cand you talk about it as it relates to protecting ratepayers.\u201d He argued that Democrats \u201cwere talking to the faculty lounge and to another Aspen conference on climate change,\u201d and added, \u201cThat\u2019s not how you win political arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are holdouts.<\/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\">\u2026 many Democrats said they are still firmly committed to raising alarm about a planet that has already warmed by about 1.3 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has criticized \u201cclimate hushing\u201d \u2014 downplaying the changing climate to avoid perceived political backlash, a tactic he says leads to a self-reinforcing cycle. \u201cWhen leaders don\u2019t talk about something, enthusiasm falls among voters,\u201d Mr. Whitehouse warned on social media recently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anger has set in.<\/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\">Saad Amer, a climate activist and founder of the consultancy Justice Environment, said he believes voters still want to know how politicians will tackle the crisis. \u201cThe folks who are saying we shouldn\u2019t talk about climate change are unimaginative hypocrites who don\u2019t have any vision of what a future should look like,\u201d Mr. Amer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reality bats last, it has been said. Energy affordability, reliability, and plenty trump unsustainable politically correct, economically incorrect wind, solar, and batteries. It is time for a real free market with politics demoted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDemocrats and environmentalists are shifting their approach to climate change\u2026. It\u2019s a rejection of the approach taken during the Biden administration, which treated climate change as an existential threat and tried to stop new drilling and pipelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer, New York Times <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":455740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\u201cDemocrats and environmentalists are shifting their approach to climate change\u2026. 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