“Forget Climate Change” says New York Times to Democrats
Things are getting so bad, an opinion piece in the New York Times recently warned Democrats to “Forget climate change, and talk about something else.” Jo Nova reflects on this development.
When climate was still a hot item in the US: AOC on the Green New Deal in 2019. (Source: Shutterstock)
Jo Nova
13 May 2026
Climate Change has become electoral poison
Too late, the socialists have realized they’ve lost the working class
Not only did the British Labour Party get humiliated in the last few days, but ten thousand miles away, so did the Australia conservatives where they suffered a catastrophic 30% swing to One Nation. The unthinkable is happening. Unelectable Climate Deniers are romping home politically, and the workers are voting ‘far-right’.
Climate change and the core left-wing totems are not just failing to reach voters, they’re actively turning them away. It’s the same in the US where voters have already elected the antichrist of Climate Action. It’s slowly dawning on the socialists that it is not a momentary blip.
Things are getting so bad, the New York Times warned Democrats to “Forget climate change, and talk about something else.” (Hat tip to Climate Depot).
The left took the working class for granted:
[From the article] Forget climate change. Democrats need to talk about other issues.
Matthew T Huber, New York Times
For the past several months, Democratic elites have been debating how much to talk about climate change, if at all — in part because these new candidates have narrowed their focus to energy affordability to win back the working class.
But their plan to win back the working class won’t work — they picked the wrong topic, then stuck to it like glue, then left it too late to say “sorry” and they aren’t saying sorry anyway. They’re not even admitting they were wrong. “To be clear, this does not mean an abandonment of climate goals.” They say. Instead they make excuses about how good leaders will do things that reduce emissions anyhow, like offering free buses, or redesigning building codes, but they won’t call it “climate change”. Because, shh, we don’t want the voters to know what we are doing, or what we believe. We just want to win, right? Yay, democracy?
In one survey 59% of voters were bothered that climate change had become political. That’s a huge slab of the population that doesn’t believe “climate science” is scientific anymore, it’s just political — 59%!
[From the article] The Pew Research Center routinely asks Americans to rank their top concerns, and climate change is consistently near the bottom. The Searchlight Institute found that 59 percent of voters in battleground states are “bothered that climate change has become such a political issue,” while only 42 percent are “motivated to do more and support policies to address climate change.” Rather than building a broad coalition necessary to enact something like a Green New Deal, climate change has become yet another issue fueling polarization.
The core problem is that being in power is their only goal, which leaves them lost when when it fails (and when it succeeds too). The solutions they come up with are only about “how to fool the voters into voting for us” — not something constructive like finding out what the people want, or solving some problem, or changing stupid policies in the first place.
[From the article] The Democratic Party remains deeply unpopular. The way out is to stop elevating a litany of single-issue policies that appeal to the already converted. When it comes to climate change, for now, it might be better to say nothing at all.
Their big plan failed
They thought the Green New Deal would win over the working voters. They didn’t know (and still don’t realize) that for every green job invented, expensive energy would destroy two to five real jobs. Obviously, the workers live the reality.
Later, they must have decided that telling Democrats to “forget climate change” was too close to the truth, so they went back and edited the headline to hide that. Notice how the real meaning got obscured in the rewrite.
It’s what they do. They lie about everything.
This article was published first on joannenova.com.au on 12 May 2026.
Jo Nova
Jo Nova is science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic’s Handbook.
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