No one cares about climate change anymore.
According to research by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, media coverage of climate change has dropped by half since 2023. The decline also shows up in Google searches for “climate change,” which have also decreased by half since 2023. [emphasis, links added]
People, it seems, have simply gotten tired of the same old story of doom and gloom and melting ice caps.
The fact that life has gone on normally — with GDPs continuing to increase and heat deaths decreasing — despite the fact that we’ve surpassed date after date of proclaimed catastrophic “tipping points” isn’t helping climate change activists, either.
Even Greta Thunberg has moved on from climate change, which seems to bore her now, in favor of going after Israel.
Six years ago, Thunberg, in a climate change speech, told the U.N., “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” Given that she’s no longer a child and nothing has happened, that may have been overwrought.
Polling also shows that climate change simply isn’t among the issues American voters care most about.
A report this September by the Democrat-aligned Searchlight Institute urged Democrats not to even say the words “climate change,” noting that voters prioritize climate change well behind issues like affordability, jobs, and healthcare.
The group called on Democrats to focus instead on climate change under the banner of affordable energy costs.
“Advocates and elected officials should understand that their messages are actively weakened by a focus on ‘climate’ over affordability and low energy prices,” the institute said, “and that voters are looking for immediate help with rising costs rather than solutions to abstract problems.
Numerous Democrats have followed this script and flipped their climate change strategy from one of doom and gloom to a focus on how green energy can decrease the cost of electricity.
For example, Democratic Reps. Sean Casten and Mike Levin recently proposed a bill called the Cheap Energy Agenda, which claims that the “cheapest” forms of energy are also the “cleanest.”
Last month, Politico declared, “Climate change is out. Energy affordability is in… Climate policy is decidedly unfashionable in 2025 — among Democrats.”
The reality that many alternative energy sources are simply more expensive than oil and natural gas is not stopping Democrats from pursuing the strategy. They hope that innovation will allow wind, solar, and the like to catch up before voters notice.
Every Democrat now knows to campaign on affordability — what @KathyHochul is showing here is the tough-mindedness to actually govern on affordability even though she’s going to take misguided shit from green groups over it.https://t.co/xAiO4Equ6W pic.twitter.com/Sa8zzI1sZ8
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 8, 2025
This shift comes from the party that pursued the alleviation of climate change as its top priority under President Joe Biden.
The Democratic Party’s landmark legislation under Biden, the “Inflation Reduction Act,” was in reality just a climate change subsidies bill. In fact, $783 billion out of the bill’s $891 billion in spending went to fighting climate change.
Voters are not deceived by the fact that Democrats have made climate change their central issue. According to the Searchlight Institute, voters said that the top priority of the Democratic Party is climate change, followed closely by LGBTQ issues.
In recent weeks, climate activists and scientists have adopted a posture of outright desperation.
While they have had the rug pulled out from under them by the Trump administration, both from the president’s rollback of the Inflation Reduction Act and the EPA’s rescinding of the legal basis for many climate change regulations, and have been facing funding issues from the fact that interest in climate change has dropped precipitously, what happened last month has made them even more afraid.
They now fear that even climate change stalwarts on the Left no longer care about climate change.
Top photo by Gabriel McCallin on Unsplash
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