Essay by Eric Worrall
Claim: A Majority of Voters believe Climate Change is a False Religion
Essay by Eric Worrall
“… the climate religion actually has nothing to do with the climate. It is all about power, control, dominion and apologizing for America’s own success. …”
Is Climate Change a False Religion?
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
A majority of voters agree with a Republican presidential candidate’s criticism of climate change as a “religion” that isn’t really about the climate at all.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. voters agree – including 47% who Strongly Agree – with Vivek Ramasamy’s recent statement that climate change has become a religion that “actually has nothing to do with the climate” and is really about power and control. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree with Ramaswamy’s statement, including 25% who Strongly Disagree. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Seventy-nine percent (79%) of Republicans, 45% of Democrats and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major party at least somewhat agree with Ramaswamy’s description of climate change as a religion.
Twenty-one percent (21%) voters believe the problem of climate change is getting better, up from 18% in May 2022. LINK TO Climate Change: Democrats More Concerned Than Other Voters Thirty-two percent (32%) now say climate change is getting worse, down from 38% last May. Forty-two percent (42%) think the climate change problem is staying about the same.
The fox News interview which triggered this poll (note the link in the article above is wrong):
Vivek Ramaswamy reveals the ‘dirty little secret’ of climate religion: ‘All about power, control’
Climate religion is shackling the US, says the GOP presidential candidate
By Fox News Staff | Fox News
Strive Asset Management co-founder and Executive Chairman Vivek Ramaswamy, who announced his bid as a GOP 2024 presidential candidate, joined “Sunday Morning Futures” to discuss how the climate religion is shackling America and why it needs to be abandoned.
MARIA BARTIROMO: … The Biden administration’s main priority is the climate change agenda. This is a whole of government approach, and it has impacted the national security of being oil independent, energy independent.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY: … I mean, you think about actually handing $40 billion-plus to Ukraine with one hand at the same time that Biden was lobbying actually the EU from its Russian oil import ban. The reason is because we’ve shot our own fossil fuel industry in the foot, and it is because of this climate religion, but the dirty little secret, Maria [Bartiromo], that not a lot of people know is the climate religion actually has nothing to do with the climate. It is all about power, control, dominion and apologizing for America’s own success. … What they really want to do is punish America and establish this agenda of global equity, which also allows China to catch up to us …
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A word of caution. This is a single data point, an apparent significant departure from other polls which claim a majority is concerned about climate change.
But just maybe the tide is turning.
A lot of things have been going wrong for wind and solar fanatics lately. Biden, arguably the President with the greatest record of subsidizing unreliable wind and solar in America’s history, had his chance to bring down energy prices with his solar panels and wind turbines. Instead, he delivered the spectacle of the US Secretary of State crawling to the Saudis, begging for access to their oil, oil which could have been delivered by the Keystone Pipeline and other petroleum projects the Biden administration sabotaged.
In Britain and Germany – energy prices. Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany has implausibly promised an energy miracle, but Britain and Europe have already waited a long time for the promised reward for all the hardship they have endured and the trillion Pounds and Euros spent over the last few decades.
The measures Britain and Germany have taken to avert catastrophe in the face of Russian gas supply disruption, and the utter failure of the climate alarmist’s energy programmes to deliver, are beyond embarrassing. Germany is bulldozing villages, old growth forests, even a wind farm to dig up coal to avoid further deindustrialization caused by their maniacal reliance on intermittent wind and solar. Britain deferred decommissioning her decrepit coal plants. Just as well, Britain needed those coal plants again just last week.
In Australia, Prime Minister Albanese, who won on the promise of a substantial drop in energy prices, well that promise is now looking pretty shaky. Household energy prices are set to rise 20%, 30% next year?Who knows. What we do know, is it will be a lot – and the dirt cheap coal power which bring down prices is scheduled to be shut down.
With the promises of the climate religion wearing thin, and climate concern faltering in the face of mortgage stress and soaring energy bills, perhaps this Rasmussen poll is what it appears to be – an early indication of a sea change in public opinion concerning climate change and climate action.
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A good essay…On The Church Of Climate.
Inside the Church of Climate | AIER
To be more accurate, “Climate Change” is a memeplex, but not a lot of people are familiar with that concept, so it gets called a “religion”, which is close enough I guess. And it does make the True Believers hopping mad, so that’s good.
I have a front row seat in the electric utility industry. I don’t think it is a religion. It is simply people seeking status and promotions.
If my issue is important and I’m doing something about it, I’m a leader with a better shot at the CEO seat. I couldn’t care less what the issue is. I just need to be seen leading the solution.
I haven’t met one leader yet who knows or cares about the science.
The only way to stop it is to create a new and bigger thing that people can demonstrate leadership doing.
A potentially hopeful sign that the masses are not idiots to be corralled and controlled… I suspect as more and more visceral examples of the actual cost of this societal suicide cult becomes apparent this trend will continue.
Threatening to force austerity can be ignored, until they actually try to take away gas stoves, gas or oil furnaces, and now washing machines that don’t clean your clothes…. and promising to ban IC (Internal Combustion) engines can be ignored, until loonifornia bans all lawn mower, weed whacker, and generator engines. Doing things like this makes the apparently lunatic promises real to the average person.
Then add in that they said the western US is in a 1200 year drought, but then 20 feet of snow occurs, with another foot or two of rain on top….
Then add in the failure of a serious bank, which is revealed funded mostly woke or climate projects and cared not for fiscal responsibility, but rather adhering to the DIE religion (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity) – which potentially threatens a cascade banking failure…
And people begin to see you cannot ignore this lunatic cult’s insane proclamations anymore.
How fast this about face appears to have taken place is not a surprise. Gad Saad who has lead a crusade against this woke nonsense for some time regularly says “we can end this by next Tuesday, if everyone grows a backbone and simply says “no” to the descent into the abyss of infinite lunacy”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/12/gad_saad_if_we_can_activate_our_inner_honey_badger_and_speak_in_unison_well_get_rid_of_these_parasitic_ideas_by_next_tuesday.html
I gotta say, Vivek has a lot going for him. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
https://www.vivek2024.com/
They may believe it to be a false religion, but one with enough power and influence that they publicly maintain the party line for fear of reprisal.
Well, this climate religion got off on the wrong foot when Al Gore crowned himself the Climate Pope and chief scientist.
I crowned him Al “the climate blimp” Gore
“In the name of liberalism”( R. Reagan), with religious fervor they are coming after your thoughts, your mind, your speech, you assemblies, your food, you farms, your land, your faith and your church…… and you money either by taking it or shrinking it.
It’s time for political action beyond or within both parties. It’s time for a Farm Party like in Netherlands, Time for a Free Thought Party, The Free access to fuel Party, Free the Meat party, Down with eating insects party, What Climate Crisis? party, The Free speech party, Freedom of Religion party. And the Land Reform Party, The Meat party. Push for grass roots political power and build coalitions in both parties and push like no tomorrow.
This is the only way any sort of representative power can be retained in the USA during the coming avalanche of “in the name of Liberalism”. Don’t be fooled it isn’t liberalism and it is in both parties.
“Climate Change is a False Religion”
All religions are “false” in sense that they are fabrications promoting false narrative, but this is not their flaw by omission, but rather a fundamental feature by design.
All religions are creations of men designed to control other men, and Climate Change is no different.
Therefore, Climate Change is a religion, but it is no more false than any other religion.
Perhaps what is interesting, is that traditional religions appealing to groups people are declining, and this most recent one has a truly universal appeal.
Eric
You assume that this survey “a single datapoint” might be wrong. There’s a 97% probability that this is not the case.
A better explanation is that the results of the Rasmusson and Pew surveys are not incompatible. It is quite possible that a respondent might be “concerned” about climate change while still believing that it has been twisted into a religion that has nothing to do with climate and is now all about political power and control.
Indeed, I would put myself into this category. I ‘strongly agree’ (along with about half of all US voters), that the issue has been politicised to the point that it is no longer even about the climate any more. And most of the media coverage certainly treats it like a religion, concerned with the purity of faith rather than with data or evidence.
But, if I had been in the Pew Survey I would have expressed my concern about GHG emissions. My country (like the USA) has signed and ratified the Paris Agreement and has committed to delivering an ambitious reduction in those emissions within the next 7 years. How are we to meet this promise? How much will it cost? Why is our progress so slow?
As I see it, the lesson to be taken from both surveys is that politicians (and the corporate media) must start treating voters as adults. The propaganda campaign of recent years has failed utterly and it is time for rational and thoughtful debates.
That is real progress