The people are sick of this climate scam and are finally waking up.

'Here's why team Harris isn't peddling Democrat climate panic this
election'

'No one is buying' the save-the-planet 'claptrap anymore''

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'Vice President Kamala Harris has been tight-lipped about her record on
climate change while major green groups continue to support her anyways
— a dynamic that political pundits and energy experts told the Daily
Caller News Foundation is no accident.

Harris — who called climate change an "existential threat" in 2019 —
previously probed major oil corporations as California's attorney
general and co-sponsored the Green New Deal as a senator, but she has
mostly avoided climate change and green energy on the campaign trail,
framing the issues in terms of economics, jobs and investment when she
does bring up the subject. That many major eco-activist groups are still
supporting her indicates that Harris is trying to broaden her appeal to
more moderate voters in order to win the election and subsequently
govern as a climate hardliner once in office, energy experts and
political strategists told the DCNF.

"The Democrats have figured out that the apocalyptic vibe isn't really
likely to bring people along for this particular ride," Mike McKenna, a
GOP strategist with extensive energy sector experience, told the DCNF.
"So, they have obviously made a command decision to focus only on the
carrots and ignore anything that looks like a stick."

Harris and her running mate, Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, have
campaigned on climate issues in passing, but eco-activist leaders are
generally unconcerned about the lack of focus on the issue, according to
The New York Times. Walz did not address climate change during his
Wednesday night speech at the Democratic National Convention , sticking
primarily to his background as a rural American.

Even after the Harris campaign walked back her previous support for a
fracking ban, a slew of environmental organizations opposed to fracking
endorsed her candidacy. The campaign's apparent strategy of not focusing
much on climate change "suggests that Democrats see talking about the
environment as a lose-lose proposition" in this election cycle, The
Washington Post reported on Thursday.

"They know what she's going to do. There's no upside to talking about
climate," Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy and
Environmental Legal Institute, told the DCNF. "Keep in mind, I believe
it was in July of 2022, The New York Times ran a poll reporting that
only 1% of voters prioritize climate. So it's a loser issue … And they
can't afford to lose Pennsylvania. So, they don't want to talk about
climate, because when you talk about climate, then you have to talk
about fracking, and then they're going to have to talk about how she
wants to stop fracking, regardless of what she says."

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has pursued one of the most
aggressive state-level climate agendas in the U.S. in his tenure as
governor, recently told the NYT that he doesn't think Harris needs to
leverage her climate record on the campaign trail.

"I am not concerned," Inslee told the NYT. "I am totally confident that
when she is in a position to effect positive change, she will."

Moreover, the political wings of three green groups — the League of
Conservation Voters, Climate Power and the Environmental Defense Fund —
are spending $55 million on swing state advertisements to boost Harris,
but the first threeads released do not actually address climate change.
The ads back into the subject of green energy and pitch Harris' record
on the issue as centered on protecting ordinary Americans from greedy
corporations and promoting "advanced manufacturing and clean energy" as
a means of helping the middle class.

This approach is different than the one Harris used during her first run
for the presidency in the 2020 cycle, in which Harris attempted to
outflank many of her Democratic opponents from the left by endorsing
policies like carbon taxes, changes to dietary guidelines to decrease
red meat consumption and a ban on plastic straws to complement a
fracking ban.

Eco-activists and climate-focused voters "definitely believe she will go
left, left, left on climate and energy," Scott Jennings, a political
strategist and on-air pundit for CNN, told the DCNF. "Of course they do.
Her 2020 campaign agenda is what they are banking on. And I assume she
will deliver for them if she wins."

President Joe Biden also made climate a key aspect of his successful
2020 campaign, guaranteeing that he would end fossil fuels and calling
former President Donald Trump a "climate arsonist" who was failing to
protect Americans from the "ravages of climate change," according to
Inside Climate News. Nevertheless, Biden and his top officials still
frequently drew the ire of hardline climate activists despite the
administration pursuing what it describes as the "most ambitious climate
agenda in history."

Harris cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to secure the 2022
passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden's signature climate
bill. While its price tag has ballooned from initial estimates and some
contend that the bill has actually worsened inflation, the IRA unleashed
hundreds of billions of dollars of private and public spending on green
energy and manufacturing projects.

The Biden-Harris administration touts that investment as evidence that
its domestic agenda is working.

"The climate activists in the Democrat Party have finally realized that
no one is buying their 'climate emergency' claptrap anymore or their
claims of 5, 10, or 20 years left to 'save the planet.' Instead, they
are pedaling a barrage of silly economic claims that somehow pouring
hundreds of billions and now trillions of dollars into government
centrally planned projects," Marc Morano, the publisher of Climate
Depot, told the DCNF. "This new Democrat climate messaging, where they
don't mention climate, is part of the legacy of the Inflation Reduction
Act, where local communities and certain states get unlimited federal
funds poured into them via taxpayers to create a 'green economy.'"

Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, said that the
Harris campaign's lack of attention to climate change and green energy
issues is deliberate given her need to secure the support of a broad
coalition if she is to win in November.

"First and foremost, Kamala Harris' responsibility in this race is to
win it. And to do so, she has to present her priorities in a way that
resonates with those who are concerned about the economy and frustrated
with their own financial situations. Specifically, she has to emphasize
the opportunities that exist for better jobs, higher wages and long-term
cost savings for the ratepayers," Foxwell told the DCNF. "This is
particularly imperative when discussing renewable energy investment,
because the upfront costs tend to be considerable and the financial
benefits to the middle class are largely speculative."

As the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Harris "has to
communicate her vision and values in a way that attracts the broadest
possible coalition," though it remains to be seen how she would actually
govern if elected given uncertainty about the future balance of power in
Congress, according to Foxwell. Harris and her team must take care to
not propose policies that would increase the cost of living for middle
class Americans, which would be "third rail" politics given how
concerned people are about the economy, he added.

The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for
comment.'