Essay by Eric Worrall
First published JoNova; “More than 60% of voters surveyed by the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication said they have heard “a little” or “nothing at all” about the 2022 law known as the Inflation Reduction Act”
Biden Is Spending $1 Trillion to Fight Climate Change. Voters Don’t Care.
President’s campaign is promoting the effort, hoping to attract young people
By Amrith Ramkumar and Andrew Restuccia
April 9, 2024 at 5:00 am ETPresident Biden has done more to address climate change than any of his predecessors. So far, voters don’t seem to care.
The Biden campaign and a collection of progressive groups are trying to change that. They believe the president’s record on climate change can boost his popularity with young voters.
The strategy is risky because climate has never been a priority with voters. And it is unclear whether climate policies could reverse the deep skepticism many young people feel toward Biden. Recent Wall Street Journal polls have found that Biden’s support among young people is shrinking compared with 2020 amid concerns about the president’s age and his support for Israel’s war against Hamas.
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Biden’s economic policies have been unpopular with a majority of voters surveyed in recent Journal polls. More than 60% of voters surveyed by the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication said they have heard “a little” or “nothing at all” about the 2022 law known as the Inflation Reduction Act, which contained about $1 trillion in tax credits, grants and loans for clean energy.
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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/biden-is-spending-1-trillion-to-fight-climate-change-voters-dont-care-21d8cb05?st=62plfi8jmo4e15r&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not only is Biden ignoring the priorities of 98% of voters, the 2% of Presidential voters who do care about climate change, over half of them likely haven’t noticed that the “Inflation Reduction Act” is actually a climate initiative.
Who knows, maybe if Biden had called the “Inflation Reduction Act” the “save the planet from climate change” act, his trillion dollar climate expenditure might have won 2% of the American people, rather than 1%.
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Yale’s “Program on Climate Change”… I’d love to hear the conversations at their meetings after this poll result.
They’re saving the planet. I’m pretty sure polls don’t matter to them. Especially since the money is already available…
This was a poll conducted in the seven states most likely to be swing states in 2024.It would be interesting to see what a country-wide poll would show. I suspect it wouldn’t be too different. In my personal experience, people outside the energy industry just don’t care much about the subject one way or the other. But then, I’m in deep red West Virginia.
But why does the suicide climate cult keep going? If the voters don’t care, why do politicians and the media milk the climate catastrophe so much? I don’t get it, it should have died out a long time ago but seems to get worse – or louder.
It’s a justification to rob the Treasury.
Correction: Tax Payers.
“tax-and-spend” has been neutered because the “tax” part does not happen.
“In my personal experience, people outside the energy industry just don’t care much about the subject one way or the other”
Yes, it seems that way.
In order to jam this monstrosity through the Senate, Biden and Majority Leader Schumer promised a skeptical Joe Manchin that more land would be leased for oil drilling. Then, like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown at the last second, Schumer never gave Manchin any additional oil leases. Senator Manchin isn’t even running for re-election this year, because he knows he’s toast in coal-rich West Virginia.
Of course, financing this extra unneeded trillion dollars of spending has caused higher government borrowing, higher interest rates, inability of people to buy homes, and higher inflation. For naming this the “Inflation Reduction Act”, Big Brother from George Orwell’s novel would be proud.
Any idea what happened to this trillion dollars? How much went to the Big Guy?
I guess 10%.
seems like a fair finder’s fee 🙂
Wrong . It was EVs that he got shafted
Politico
Oil/Gas leases have been offered for sale last year. yes more should be but your claim is doubly false
Oil Companies Offer $382M for Drilling Rights in Gulf of Mexico in Last Offshore Sale Before 2025
All it took was Manchin… and a whole lot of suing!.
Hey, Duker, I got a bridge for you, real cheep…
FSK bridge is going cheap atm.
The economy doesn’t benefit if the switch to EVs is essentially a stupid idea.
If it is at all true, it means 60% of American’s don’t know what is in their best interest financially and that all money is funny money when it comes to the Federal government; a bottomless pit of dough for all. In 1990 most democrats would have been appalled and most republicans would be punching the panic button. If no one cares, it’s because they are so addicted their phones the they’re living life with their head in the sand waiting for the next hand out.
It’s Revolutionary. A new way have fleecing government money.. the climate boondoggle. Who Cares?
Why are scams included in any polling?
Typical for Biden. His Inflation Reduction Act increased inflation.
Just like Obama’s Affordable Care Act increased health care costs.
Just like the Green New Deal is neither green nor a deal.
A leftard pattern emerges.
I’d rather spend the money on helping Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel.
Their potential defeats are much bigger threats to civilisation.
I agree with you on Taiwan and Israel. A lot of the semiconductor products for modern civilization are manufactured there. Ukraine, not so much, thou’ it could produce a lot of wheat if trade wasn’t fubar.
This story is making the rounds. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hunter-biden-linked-ukrainian-firm-connected-to-terror-attacks-in-russia/articleshow/109184433.cms
Russia articles ‘show’ LOL
I do not understand the down votes on your post.
Certain names attract downvotes regardless of content.
If Russia becomes a stronger nation- with more people and resources- that’s bad for Europe because Putin’s desire is to rebuild the Soviet Union and regain power over eastern European nations. And all that is bad for America. It’s far cheaper to aid Ukraine than deal with a revitalized Russian bear.
Considering that should that scenario play out, the federal budget for military would necessarily balloon, aka more debt.
Lesson from the last 70 years of US military intervention:
Superior training and tech kicked the opponent’s a$$, so what should happen next? I dunno either.
Putin is over 70. Who’s next?
We could include Japan and South Korea with them. Little Rocket Man has all but declared war on them recently.
He’s got a big mouth- all talk and no action. He needs to do that to impress his enslaved population.
He’s (Putin) got a big mouth. Check.
Needs to impress his enslaved population. Check.
No action? Events point to the contrary, unless you are referencing a very narrow, specific area of action.
I know this is not the forum, but if it can be put succinctly:
Why should I give a f#^^%# who runs Ukraine?
The government just needs to reach out to Snopes and pressure them again, this should change the mind of at least half percent of survey takers:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-admin-pressured-snopes-change-080032688.html
Make no mistake, 50% of voters don’t exist for our enlightened President. He does not provide any services to non-existents. He is passionate for non-legals.
“He is passionate for non-legals.”
Of course he is, he wants to make sure he gets their votes!
Perhaps, but more important is, since many are not legal voters, one has to look beyond the ballot box to reapportionment of representatives based on population and population is anyone living in the US, citizen and non-citizen alike. Getting a few more seats in the House is the more likely goal.
Non-legals and “underserved” minorities, brainwashing children, and degrading military readiness and training by substituting combat training with DEI training.
One of the easiest things to do is spend other people’s money.
“It’s always so attractive,” Milton Friedman said, “to be able to do good at somebody else’s expense.”
Ronald Reagan’s comment about the scariest words comes to mind. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
People under 35 might never have heard that quote.
Biden handing out $1 trillion to donors who then fund the democrat party. Nothing new. It’s Solyndras all the way down. It sure would be nice to have a real opposition party. They’re all crooked in DC.
It sure would be nice to go back to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people rather than of the party, by the party, and for the party.
Go back to? What year?
According to the latest data from the Mauna Loa carbon dioxide observatory, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing. Not only that, but the rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere also continues to increase.
It therefore appears that spending money fighting climate change has no effect on the actual amount or rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere.
At some point, voters will notice a reduction in their standards of living as silly policies that waste finite resources cannot continue without damaging economic effects.
When humans cut their CO2 emissions by 6% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CO2 levels continued to rise at the same rate. Human emissions didn’t make a bit of difference.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x.
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/index.html
Humans contribute some 4% of CO2 flux..
Cutting that by 6% leaves 3.76%.. its is pretty much in round-off-error territory, so of course it had no discernible effect.
“but the rate of change of CO2 in the atmosphere also continues to increase”
Tony Heller has addressed this claim many times- showing that the rate of change is NOT increasing.
It could have a recent increase due to the eruption of Kilauea.
6 active volcanos (none erupting atm) in Hawaii and that is where we get our “best” CO2 measurements?
The Mauna Loa station is 11,410 feet above sea level. How representative of the atmosphere is that?
This is the same Mauna Loa station that had to move 200 miles away due to a volcano erupting.
“It therefore appears that” …
Some leap occurred between paragraphs. Is the missing assumption that US voters would control global CO2 measurements?
Biden is spending unlimited trillions to reverse climate change, but spending nothing to maintain:
· the supply chain of products for the 8 billion on this planet, for product such as refrigerators, tires, asphalt, X-Ray machines, iPhones, air conditioners, and the more than 6,000 products that wind and solar CANNOT manufacture,
· the supply chain of fuels that wind and solar CANNOT manufacture to power 20,000 commercial aircraft, and more than 50,000 military aircraft, and more than 50,000 merchant ships.
President Biden remains oblivious to the fact that wind and solar only generate electricity. Biden is incapable of identifying one product that wind and solar can manufacture for mankind. And worse, he has NO backup plan to replace all the products and fuels that are based on oil!
All Creepy Joe cares about is his next vacation back home in Delaware.
Biden is aware he’s alive and that there are people around who see to him. But not much more.
The people actually running the show know exactly what they’re doing: make the US a one-party state. Abrade the Constitution into non-existence. Fake elections (for a while). Impose surveillance slavery. Live fat.
I believe their ideal world is tripartite: a rich elite (themselves), a technically trained group to keep things running (for them) and a reduced population of uneducated proles (to provide labor and entertainment).
That’s the Cuban/Venezuelan model.
Those are good points Mr. Stein. Our local skeptic skeptic will say that nothing precludes petroleum from still being used as a source of materials, but clearly this is in opposition to “keep it in the ground.”
At NREL, they will say that there are a billion tons of biomass available per year in just the U.S. alone. That would be fine if our population were in the tens and not hundreds of millions.
“the supply chain of products for the 8 billion on this planet”
Not his job.
Even if you’ve got everything right.
You’re universalizing personal objectives.
Ideologues just know they’re right. They don’t care a fig about opinions of the unenlightened. The beat goes on, the money goes on, and so the charlatanry goes on.
They also do not care a fig about facts.
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FedGov deficit spending of $2 TRILLION is driving inflation back up, in spite of the visible efforts of the Federal Reserve. Voters aren’t the ones skimming off the money from all that spending, and are not mathematically astute enough to connect the dots from FedGov spending to the rise of inflation.
Mr. Gold, hitting highs, agrees with you.
Voters care, they just don’t realize all that spending and regulation creates the inflation they suffer through.
Biden sold off most of the US’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.
China will burn it.
What was gained?
Hunter’s businesses received millions to tens of millions from Chinese companies with CCP connections.
Most people just think the gov’t can just print money to pay for these cash wasteful exercises. They don’t realize that issuing new money for projects that have have only feel-good, not monetary payback, just dilutes the value of money already “out there”…. so is no different than a tax on everyone….requiring more of the devalued money to buy real stuff….
Sometimes dropping gunnysacks of money into a desperate situation works…most times it just makes the wrong people rich.
I doubt most eve know that there was a time when when a $20 bill was worth an ounce of gold.
There were $20 coins in circulation that had the buying power of an ounce of gold.
The dollar was based on something solid. Not anymore.
(I think the UK suffered something similar. Their money used based on one pound of sterling silver?)
20 $20 gold pieces would have much greater buying power today than 20 $20 dollar bills.
(Of course, prices and wage would have been much lower also but, sticking a $20 dollar gold piece under your mattress 80 years ago would have left your heirs with more than if you just stuck a $20 bill under your mattress. The US stopped honoring $20 gold certificates as worth an ounce of gold decades ago.)
Joe Biden is a terrible president but he isn’t the problem. Democrats, liberals, socialists, facists, communists, progressives and any other outfit that believes the government knows better are the problem. Having said that there is nothing magical about the free market/capitalist system. It is not magic that breeds success it is the freedom to win and lose. Many, many ideas tried in a capitalist system don’t work and likely never will. That is okay, we learn by our mistakes and change what we are doing or stop doing it. The other side does the opposite. They double down, spend more money, create mandates in other words force people to do things that don’t work.
We Republican, capitalist, free market, conservative maybe even libertarians can whip the snot out of the other side anytime we choose. Our ideology works and theirs doesn’t. The reason the other guys enjoy success is because our side spends so much time in pissing matches with one another. Single issue voting is our problem. We allow our people to lose at the ballot box because they aren’t conservative enough or pro life enough or they voted for a tax or spending increase or they caved on a climate issue and on and on. It is insane. Yes I blame us for our lack of success.
Our ideology is far superior to theirs there is no doubt. It is our individuality and stubbornness that is our downfall. Majority, majority, majority that is what matters. If we control the majority we control the agenda. If they control the majority they control the agenda. It is as simple as that. We don’t have to embrace those in our party that we don’t agree with but we do have to join with them to beat the other guys.
He who controls the language controls the ideas. The socialists bought and control much of the main street, legacy media.
Isn’t this result consistent with others in a number of countries? Even the UN’s international surveys consistently reveal that when it comes to priorities, climate change action ranks at or near the bottom of bottom, well behind issues like jobs, the economy, housing costs, health care, education, national defense, personal safety, taxation, etc. People generally feel that climate issues are either natural occurrences or were caused by governments and industries, so it’s up to them to bear the responsibility for dealing with them and without passing off the costs to consumers who are affected enough by inflation already.
yep.
Here’s that UN 7-million people worldwide survey –
https://about.myworld2030.org/my-world-2015/
People instinctively understand we are not at a precipice.
Climate change (and it does change) is a slow progression, not a run-away greenhouse effect.
A better title for the article: “Biden spends trillions on climate and voters are unaware.” I vote and I am aware. 60% were unaware of the legislation and unaware of the amount of money being spent. The people have, if you will, limited band width, and climate is so far removed from their top concerns. The media and President have done a wonderful job of hiding what is going on inside the Inflation Reduction Act.
Exactly. They deliberately mis-named the bill and the media only used the title without mentioning what it really did.
According to that chart, abortion and climate change combined don’t carry as much interest as either the border crisis or the economy/inflation. Yet the leftards are putting all their eggs in that basket. It’s all they have.
How much difference has this trillion dollars made to the climate? Should we expect any improvement?
“Yale University Program on Climate
ChangePropaganda”what they mean of course
I used to read their climate web site- it’s atrocious.
US government spending has been disconnected from tax collection for so long that $Trillion is meaningless.