Evaluation: ‘What Happened to the Climate Change Cult?’ – The left’s ‘all-consuming focus on Palestine…paved over climate alarmism’ – ‘After decades of climate panic, the left quietly abandoned the weather’

What Happened to the Climate Change Cult?

By Arthur Schaper

After decades of climate panic, the left quietly abandoned the weather—proof its causes shift not with science or facts, but with whatever outrage best sustains power, protest, and cultural revolt.

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The left never tires of finding causes to fight for. Whatever declares war on the West, undermines natural law and basic reality, and places power above principle, the left lines up for the kill.

But there’s one slogan that has disappeared, one fight that has fizzled out:

The Climate Change Cult.

For the last twenty years, ever since Al Gore ended up without a job, liberal elites have clamored about the threats of global warming, rising sea levels, the carbon dioxide explosion in the skies, and that we had to do something, anything! before catastrophe struck.

Now, no one seems to care about the weather, least of all the left.

What happened?

Matt Ridley posits that the relentless doom and gloom tired out voters, who tuned out of hearing “The sky is falling!” because the sky was not falling.

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I am sure the disproven blather about the polar ice caps disappearing in 2013 convinced people, too, as they are still shining, chilling, gelling, and taking up more space in Antarctica and the Arctic.

But here’s the thing: in 2014 and beyond, academics, pundits, and politicians were still raising widespread alarm about climate change, long after failed former Vice President Gore’s catastrophic conclusions melted away. I recall attending a campaign event for Marianne Williamson, a Tea Party of the left congressional candidate in Palos Verdes, CA, in 2014. She was passionate about climate change, and when I pressed her on the fact that most climate change fearmongering never came to pass, she cited a piddling study from the Los Angeles Times and then received a round of applause from her sycophant audience. After the meeting, three Boomers rushed up to me, trying to agitate me about the climate crisis and that we need to see the world through different eyes and try to understand their weathered fears and complaints.

Yeah, sure, whatever.

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But the main issue is the all-consuming focus on Palestine. Thunberg’s transition galvanized the new fight and paved over climate alarmism. The all-consuming outrage about Jews and Israel and the broad opposition to Zionism is the main left-wing bugaboo now, crystallizing a surging hatred of mainstream America and the West with a stronger following and broader global support than climate alarmism could ever conjure up.