Climate RIP as political issue?! First time climate ignored in debates since 1984 – Obama in ‘climate denial’?! – Has ‘Gore’s Life Been in Vain’? — Climate Depot’s round up

Statement by Climate Depot publisher Marc Morano on 2012 Presidential race’s climate silence:

“It is very surprising to see three presidential debates and one Vice Presidential debate pass without a single mention of climate change. This is the first time this has happened since global warming hit the national stage in 1988. Global warming activists are justifiably outraged by this. After all, Obama declared in April of this year to Rolling Stone that he would make global warming a key campaign issue in 2012. Obama let down a key part of his political base by going silent on climate.

What happened? How did climate change get reduced to a comedic punch line in the 2012 presidential campaign?

The answer is clear. The man-made global warming fear movement never overcame having a partisan figure like Al Gore being its public face and suffered from having the scandal ridden and distrusted UN IPCC as the source of its science.

Adding to these woes is the global economic slowdown and the fact that the Climategate scandal had massive consequences on public opinion and there was a collapse of the UN climate treaty talks. In addition, the continued disintegration of the warmists climate claims by real world data and in the peer-review literature make attempting to scare the public into climate ‘action’ virtually impossible.

Perhaps the most important factor in the climate silence in 2012 presidential race was a result of the forced vote in the House of Representatives to pass a cap-and-trade bill in 2009 which helped fuel the rise of the Tea Party movement in the U.S. No longer could a politician regurgitate the standard global warming claims of consensus and the need to ‘act’ without facing laughter and derision from angry crowds.

It is finally time to say RIP man-made global warming fears in U.S. politics?”

End Morano statement.

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Climate Depot Round Up:

Climate RIP as political issue?! Warmists lament: ‘No mention of global warming [in debates] for the first time since Congress was briefed on the threat in 1988’ — ‘The backlash from anti-government conservatives led Obama to downplay his green agenda, delaying and weakening environmental regulations…Romney, meanwhile, responded to the rise of the Tea Party by backtracking on his earlier support for climate action as governor of Massachusetts. He also called for phasing out subsidies for the wind industry’

What happened?! Flashback April 2012: Obama: Climate change will