Nicole Silverio
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CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Thursday that Americans are not too concerned about climate change or about being a victim of a natural disaster.
Polling from Gallup found that 40% of Americans are “greatly worried about climate change” currently, which has decreased by six percentage points from 2020. These new numbers emerged as many liberals, including Democrat members of Congress, have attempted to blame climate change and President Donald Trump for the devastating flood in Central Texas.
“Are Americans concerned of climate change, and the answer is, Americans aren’t afraid of climate change,” Enten said. “Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people. I want you to take a look here. ‘Greatly worried about climate change.’ We have data going all the way back since 1989, and look at it then, it was 39%. In 2000, it was 40%. 2020, 46%. In 2025, 40%, which is the exact same percentage as in 2000, despite all of these horrible weather events. The percentage of Americans that are greatly worried about climate change has stayed pretty gosh darned consistent.” (RELATED: Jasmine Crockett Manages To Make Texas Flood Tragedy About Herself)
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The percentage of Americans who “often [or] sometimes worry” about being the victim of a natural disaster has decreased from 38% to 32% since 2006, Enten said. A minority of Americans of each political party, including only 27% of Democrats, believe that climate change will impact their home areas.
“Look at this, all adults, it’s just 17%. It’s just 17%. The GOP is 6%, Independents is 16%, even Democrats here, it’s just 27% of Democrats who say that climate change will make it harder to stay in our area,” Enten continued. “And I think this is what’s so important. This is across the aisle in terms of the percentage of who will say it’ll be harder to stay in our area. And it is the exact same thing that we see here, ‘when you’ll be a natural disaster victim.’ Under 50% of Democrats, Republicans and Independents believe that in fact, they could be, or at least worry about the chances that they’ll be a natural disaster victim.”
Several prominent figures, such as Bill Nye, have pointed fingers at climate change and the use of fossil fuels. CNN’s Dana Bash and Democrat Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro suggested that climate change is a factor in the flood during a Sunday segment of “State of the Union.”
The flood in Texas has killed over 120 victims as of Thursday, including 27 campers at the all-girls Christian camp, Camp Mystic. At least 150 individuals remain missing in Kerr County.
Floods have occurred since the beginning of Earth’s history, and some of the worst floods in the U.S. happened over a century ago. One disaster in Pennsylvania May 31, 1889, unleashed 16 million tons of water and killed over 2,200 people, while another flood on the Mississippi River in 1927 killed at least 250 people, according to History.com.
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Story Tip – M. Mann is still looking for relevance in this world, storms are going to get worse:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/14/climate/noreaster-storm-global-warming
At least the wind doesn’t mess up his hair.
The only storm ever getting worse is the endless blast of bullshit spewing forth from Mann’s mouth.
Oh boy.
“While linear least-squares regression assumes that errors are normally distributed, the Mann–Kendall trend test is a nonparametric method that does not require the time series data to follow a normal distribution (43). Since the time series of nor’easter lifetime maximum wind speed exhibits no significant autocorrelation, we use the original Mann–Kendall test (original_test function from the pyMannKendall package) to estimate trends and their statistical significance across quantiles, from 0.01 to 0.99 quantile, in increments of 0.01. The original Mann–Kendall test returns a two-sided P-value by default; however, because we specifically hypothesize that ETCs are getting stronger under global warming, we report one-sided P-values by halving the two-sided output.“
Well if due idiocy and lies more people loose money and wealth than others gain..ehm what do you call that dear eco-looney-left-tards?
democracy
capitalism
live in denial
etc?
take a slow step of a chair with a very very very very short rope around your neck…we want to see you go through a small part of the agony you cause all over the globe.
sarc?
“of a chair” Why are there so many errors for “of vs off” these days? I see it every where all the time. Here it took extra time to grasp the meaning of the sentence.
I’m truly sorry about that missing “f”, had this been a site in my father’s language you’d certainly counted more than one spelling error.. apologies for my sometimes slow brain, translating means challenging it
I see, this type error may be due to people writing a response in their second or third language; but not when they are news or blog authors.
Careful. Those who correct others typing errors in online forums are doomed to commit the same typing errors. I _used_to_ get upset about apostrophes, most often its vs it’s. It was a futile conceit.
The difference is whether you own up to your mistakes (especially when they’re so often repeated), or start calling the person a nazi.
Have 5 languages in your head…no more need to be said 🤣
You also need to remember… for most Americans, English is also a second language…
… especially when it comes to spelling! 😉
And lose/loose.
A while back my search on “The flood of 1900, flood of 1901, flood of 1902, flood of . . .” and so on found a flood somewhere every year during the 20th century. Extreme weather happens all the time. Hurricanes, tornadoes, hail storms etc. are normal features of weather on our fair planet.. There isn’t any increasing trend due to CO2.
300 years ago, most individuals would live their entire lives never hearing about anything that happened more than 100 miles from where they were living.
As technology and the wealth made available by that technology increases, the amount of information available from around the world has increased.
100, 200, 300 years ago, there were just as many floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, heat waves, droughts, whatever, as there are today. It’s just that the further back you go, the less likely you were to hear about them.
“The average distance between an employee’s home and workplace increased from 10 miles in 2019 to 27 miles by the end of 2023, according to Gusto.” (USA)
“The average American drives around 14,263 miles per year, which breaks down to about 1,200 miles per month. This translates to roughly 37 miles per day.”
That’s one of my favorite trends. A few hundred years ago “my people” rarely left their home villages and were likely to marry some cousin from the neighborhood because the world was bigger back then.
Kevin:
I recall reading an article in Sci American [back before it got taken over by the climate religion] that work travel times have not changed appreciably since Roman times. Currently we just go further, faster and in more comfort.
( And many of us still use leather seats — LOL)
mean travel time to work is now about 25 minutes. Same as 2010. I think it was about that in 1990 too.
Nor could you dig up details about them with a few taps of a finger on a rectangle in your pocket.
The only thing getting worse about the weather is the HYPE about the weather.
The 24 hour news cycle is killing more people than weather is.
Interesting! I did that search for myself one time, just for grins, and found the same thing. I didn’t do the whole century though, because it got boring.
Pretty much every single day on Earth features an unusually impactful weather event. Just as every single day of the year there are hundreds of reporting stations reporting either a record or a far more (higher or lower) than “normal” weather result. Every damn day. Be that event hotter, or colder, or wetter, or dryer, or windier, or calmer. That is the way the Earth’s chaotic non-uniform weather machine has always operated.
On average, if there is such a thing as “average” weather at any point of time, the highs and lows cancel each other out. The Earth is in mostly thermodynamic equilibrium, with variations around the mean, and with trends plus or minus across hundreds, thousands, and millions of years, such trends coming and then going.
With weather, average isn’t normal. The average temperature for July 15th, wherever you live, was probably only archived for a few minutes in the early afternoon, and a a few minutes in the later afternoon. Maybe ten minutes out of all the minutes in a day, or less than 1% of the 24-hour day.
Blaming SUVs is easier than devising a disaster warning system that people
actually respond properly to. There were warnings of flash floods, but very few people left narrow river valleys.
Dig down into that 40% who (supposedly) are “greatly worried about climate change”. Most of that is likely politically driven. They are Democrats, so are “supposed to” worry about climate change. Otherwise, that would make them the dreaded “Deniers”. Dig further and you would see that they are merely virtue-signalling hypocrites. They also seem to have no clue about what so-called “renewables” has done, and will do to the grid as well as the economy. .
Same in the UK, next question is how much are you prepared to pay to stop climate change, Comes out about £200 which is well below the extra costs we already pay and nowhere what the Nut Zero costs really will be.
Re
Look up the Urban Dictionary for the slang terms Affluenza or First-World Problems*, and you’ll get a pretty good description of what ails these Greatly Worried 40%.
*Personal note: the first time (couple decades ago) I heard anyone utter the phrase First-World Problems was at a sister’s home. She was greatly vexed when I arrived, because she’d just before learned that her lovely private swimming-pool was leaking from a crack at the base … and so would have to be drained, the crack repaired & then the pool refilled, at some outrageous charge & inconvenience to the family.
When I started to commiserate — who doesn’t abhor an unexpected deferred-maintenance bill? — she dismissed me like this:
‘Oh well, First-World-Problems!’
and changed the subject.
In other words, if you’re not rich enough to afford your own swim-pool — and that’s 99+ % of the world’s peoples thru all history — then you’ll never have to worry about that … or about Climate Change either.
Back in the days people were smart enough to seek high ground to settle, one flood used to be enough to wisen up even the dumbest ones..nowadays…well…who would build a house in a place called “High River” ?
Oh Canada, you once beloved land…my true patriot love is what you never had…
Memories…
Really. Some people like the idea of moving out into ‘the country’, but how hard is it to do some due diligence before buying / building a home?
you would be surprised how few people actually care about doing their due diligence. Sold “recently” a lot on “high ground” got only once asked abot flooding the past years. I recommended to ask my neighbour who lived 30 years prior to me..that never happened…people are stupid enough just to care about the price.
When I bought my Condo in New Westminster back in the days I was careful enough to choose the 11th floor and make assure that the Fraser River never reached the 60′ my parking lot was located at. there…smart brain prevails, dumb brains complains…more need to he said?
“Darwinian” and “survivor bias” come to mind. If people from the day weren’t smart enough, maybe the fish were just better fed?
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” AL And the longer you try to fool the people and your lies don’t materialize the fewer people are fooled.
FWIW, “enten” is German for ducks. So… Harry Ducks?
Even more funny: “newspaper duck” (Zeitungsente) is a German term used for newspaper articles, which are fake news.
From the video:
Q: ‘So, why [are people not worried about climate change]?’
A: ‘It’s because people aren’t worried that it’s necessarily going to affect them, that’s what’s going on here.’
Sounds right to me. After 30+ years of non-stop propaganda, failed predictions and higher energy costs, most of us ‘normies’ have either simply tuned it out or put in the effort to come to sites like this to find out why it’s all a pile of crap.
Climate change is not something to be feared, because despite decades of fear mongering, the WEATHER (which is conflated with “climate change” ONLY when it is “bad,” otherwise you hear nothing but the crickets) is NOT GETTING WORSE.
Observations Trump theory, once again.
Why spend time and energy worrying about something I have absolutely no control over. Shoot, I don’t even spend time worrying about all the stuff I do have some control over–if it’s a problem, just deal with it.
Was it Mark Twain who observed that the biggest worries in his life were over things that never happened?
Yes, your imagination gives you much more trouble than does reality, most of the time.
Excellent philosophical answer to both why climate change scaring could not survive another 36 years and why socialism becomes inefficient.
> We have data going all the way back since 1989, and look at it then, it was 39%. In 2000, it was 40%. 2020, 46%. In 2025, 40%, which is the exact same percentage as in 2000, despite all of these horrible weather events.
So “climate worry” is “CNN ratings” times 10. As the network declines so does its ability to twist public opinion. But the real money quote (literally) is “all of these horrible weather events.” Setting aside that there has not been an increase in weather, and setting aside CNN sells disaster, since 1989 the world has gotten much much smaller. Any kind of breaking news is minutes away rather than days or weeks. Much of what they want to call “horrible weather events” is just technology that spreads information wider and faster. The same technology that has brought deaths due to weather way down.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it is the remaining planetary savior Wanna-Be’s are from leftist democrat’s camp, the rest of the world have better things to do than curl up into a ball and cry over imaginary climate doom as leftists does so much of.
Being a leftist is a sign of mental illness.
“Climate change” used to be code for CAGW, but that wasn’t working so they changed it to mean “extreme weather”. Uh-oh, that’s not working either. But it’s all they have left. Oh no! The Alarmist’s lies are unraveling, and they are in sheer panic mode about it.
The donor class to the Democratic Party keeps this tripe going in the USA. Without the funding to politicians (and via them to NGOs), this would have shriveled away decades ago.
Of the issues that concern American voters, climate change ranks at or near the bottom.
Video tip – another good one from Stossel –
The Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
Yep. Follow the money.
It’s hard to be scared of things that have not happened after 36 years of being told they would happen soon. I’m sure Madoff suffered the same malady.
The trend is in the right direction, for a change. I think what is probably driving this is that apolitical consumers have figured out that anti-climate change policies are hurting us financially, and in terms of freedom of consumer choice, and that the promised calamity just 10 years in the future that has been ballyhooed continuously for the last 50 years is no longer believable.
I’m very concerned about climate change. It’s been more than 45 years now when I first became excited over the possibility that I could someday grow tomatoes outside starting in March.
Still can’t do it. They refuse to germinate outside before April 15th and then they refuse to set fruit until May when the overnight temperatures finally rise above 50 deg. F
Climate changes, constantly. Humans are not causing it and humans cannot stop it. Period. Full stop.
See how they try to link climate change with natural disasters, as if natural disasters never happened before “climate change” became an issue?
I am waiting for the linkage between the price of sardines and climate change. As the price goes up, the climate gets worse. Correlation, dontchaknow.
There’s something fishy about that correlation. 😉
We live in Southern California. The most severe natural disaster we will ever suffer is an earthquake. Regardless of what anyone says, such a natural disaster is not a consequence of GW, AGW, CAGW, CC, CCC or CO2. Earthquakes are not extreme weather (nor are wildfires).
What a bunch of jokers. I am not the least bit worried about CAGW. CAGW is not the same as global warming or climate change, we humans have very little influence on weather or climate. I am concerned about natural disasters but not nearly as much now as in the past. We have spent a lot of time, money and resources studying weather/climate and have become pretty good at predicting when a local area may be in danger of a coming natural disaster. Pay attention to the warnings and act accordingly, chances are good you will be okay. As for the CAGW clowns they can go to hell.
It seems to me that similar surveys by the UN in a variety of countries have consistently shown that citizens consider climate threats to rank low on their lists of concerns. Jobs, the economy, health care, education opportunity, living costs, personal safety, national security, etc. are of far more concern than what are considered to be weather events that occur at varying degrees of intensity annually. And when an irresponsible mainstream media constantly presents people with environmental scare tactics, citizens become suspicious about their motives and their funding.
In the UK the latest Yougov poll had concern for the environment at 18%.
The top two:
Immigration 53%.
Economy 49%.
Yet those last two are the ones the Starmer et al couldn’t give a stuff about !!