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“If you repeat a lie often enough, it will become accepted as truth.” – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda

That well-known quote came to mind when I read the headline, “New poll finds majority in U.S. concerned about climate,” in the New York Post, adding that 55 percent of Americans want Congress to pass a bill to ensure that more of the nation’s electricity comes from clean energy and less from climate-damaging coal and natural gas.”

In addition, 54 percent said they were influenced by scientists, and 51 percent said their views were influenced by recent extreme weather events like hurricanes, deadly heat spells, wildfires and other natural disasters around the world. And, unbelievably, 54 percent say it’s caused mostly or entirely by human activities.

“If you push a negative hard enough (about the Earth’s demise), it will push through and become a positive (clean energy and millions of jobs).” – Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, #10

It’s not difficult to understand how so many can be swayed by climate change when you have an administration and the complicit leftist media putting forth propaganda not only on the cause of climate change, but also the myth that we can do something to stop it.

“The framework will create millions of jobs, grow the economy, invest in our nation and our people, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put us on a path not only to compete, but to win the economic competition for the 21st Century against China and every other major country in the world.” – President Biden, Oct. 28, 2021

That wasn’t exactly the message President Biden was hoping to deliver on his human infrastructure bill prior to his departure Thursday for the meeting of the G-20 and later the UN summit on climate in Glasgow, Scotland; a message that would have permitted him to boast about the bill, that he claims to have personally written, with all of its Green New Deal “investments.”

He even made a last-ditch effort by meeting with Democrats just hours before his departure. Without it, his ability to convince other countries that he has U.S. climate backing is greatly diminished. Incidentally, it appears as though Putin and Xi Jinping will not attend.

I have frequently mentioned the scare tactics of the left predicting more natural disasters caused by climate change. In the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed, “Climate Activists Blow Smoke on Wildfire Fears,” Bjorn Lomborg wrote of the worry of Rep. Katie Porter’s (D-CA) nine-year-old daughter that “the Earth is on fire and we’re all going to die soon.” That simply isn’t true.

Lomborg goes on to report that in the early 1900s, about 4.2 percent of land world wide burned every year. A century later that had dropped to 3 percent, and is expected to drop to 2.5 percent in the next data collection. The Journal notes that the reductions came as temperatures rose.

Interestingly, Lomborg commented that “important facts about climate change don’t always make it into the dominant media coverage. We’re (the Journal) here to help to provide some important background so readers can have a better understanding of the true effects of climate change and the real costs of climate policy.”

While CNN and MSNBC frequently quote the New York Times and Washington Post, don’t look for them to quote Lomborg and the Journal.