As someone so right named it “watermelon”, green on the outside, red in the middle. I do think a lot of “commy socialists” saw that they could not gain support by plain politics and had to latch on to a common human interest theme like “the environment”.
Like most scams, they eventually fade away because even the sheeple finally grow tired of the ever louder and more outrageous “sideshow” hawking.
Although I believe most of the public is 'warming' up to the fact that this man-cause Global Warming hysteria is a farce -- the Government(s) are still going to use it as an excuse to raise taxes or fees. Like I said, data be damned -- they want the money and they are going to take it.