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What Happened to the Climate Change Cult?

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"Stand with Ukraine! Free Palestine! No One is Illegal!"

Did I forget any other empty slogans? For the last eight years, the basement-dwelling interlocutors of the Left have screamed and yelled for The Revolution, bearing their signs, blocking the streets, and bawling in front of politicians' homes.

Conservatives and the general public have endured these mantras blasted all over social media and the airwaves. These empty epithets have dominated college campuses, overwhelmed classrooms and public squares, and they featured prominently in debates, podcasts, and talk shows.

The Left never tires of finding causes to fight for. Whatever declares war on the West, undermines natural law and basic reality, and places power above principle, the Left lines up for the kill.

But there's one slogan that has disappeared, one fight which has fizzled out:

The Climate Change Cult.

For the last 20 years, ever since Al Gore ended up without a job, liberal elites have clamored about the threats of global warming, rising sea levels, the carbon dioxide explosion in the skies, and that we had to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING! before catastrophe struck.

Now, no one seems to care about the weather, least of all the Left.

What happened?

Matt Ridley posits that the relentless doom and gloom tired out voters, and they tuned out from hearing "The Sky is Falling!" because the sky was not........

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