Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them – Watts Up With That?

This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”.

Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution

Talking about electric cars especially deadly for Democrats. Women in particular frightened of battery running out. (Interesting gendered spin on range anxiety I hadn’t thought about before).

The thread quickly jumps to the best messages ever tested, all of which are outright lies, out of context projections, or fantasies.

Best messages ever tested: Save on energy bills/lowering energy costs; kitchen-sink costs; creating good stable jobs; investments in transit, infra, manufacturing; R&D for clean energy.

We can assume you’ve spit out your coffee or had some similar reaction at this point.

Let’s parse this a bit.

Save on energy bills/lowering energy costs; kitchen-sink costs,

Uh, ask consumers in California, the UK, Canada, or Germany about that one.

creating good stable jobs;

Employees of Solyndra, Proterra, Fisker, Arrival UK, or any large industry in Germany, the list goes on, may have a different take, not to mention pipeline and construction workers.

investments in transit, infra, manufacturing;

The California High Speed Rail project is the poster child for this, along with the types companies alluded to above. Many of these projects are no more beneficial to the overall economy than if you simply paid one group of workers to dig holes and another group to fill them back up again.

R&D for clean energy.

Money being spent to fight the laws of thermodynamics, detract from economic growth, raise energy prices, create environmental devastation, instead of stable, dispatchable, small environmental footprint, baseload power.

… The message “Green New Deal” now *isn’t* associated with government investment to spur on good jobs and economic development; instead it became associated with bans on burgers and flying, and in particular provoked a fear of making energy expensive.

I find this bemoaning beyond parody.

and in particular provoked a fear of making energy expensive.

BECAUSE IT’S %%@^^ TRUE, REALITY, AND DEMONSTRATED TIME AFTER TIME

The X thread goes on to discuss AOC’s politically disastrous rolling out of her Green New Deal in 2019 and the subsequent backpedaling. However, it also notes that this same enviro-marxist messaging continues unabated and continues to drive the public away from their utopian fantasy.

It’s a fun thread to read on X. Just make sure you swallowed your coffee first before reading.