Posted on 10/02/2018 1:57:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dan McCready is a boyish ex-Marine, a solar energy entrepreneur and a favorite candidate of national Democrats hoping to nab a Republican seat in their battle for the House.
His company, Double Time Capital, says its mission is to hasten “our country’s important transition to clean energy” because of climate change.
But as a candidate in a conservative-tilting battleground district, Mr. McCready’s environmental message is much more muted. Climate change is not directly named among 13 top issues on his website. And though his latest TV commercial features solar panels and boasts that the 35-year-old, first-time candidate helped make North Carolina a leader in solar power, the ad highlights Mr. McCready’s ability to balance a budget and meet a payroll. It does not mention “environment” or “climate change.”
In an election year that has included alarming portents of global warming - record wildfires in the West, 500-year floods in the East, a president walking away from a global climate accord - the one place that climate change rarely appears at all is in the campaigns of candidates for the House and Senate.
The vast majority of Democrats and Republicans running for federal office do not mention the threat of global warming in digital or TV ads, in their campaign literature or on social media.
Environmental activists and political scientists say it is a reflection of the issue’s perpetual low ranking among voters, even Democratic voters, and of the intense polarization along party lines that has developed around global warming, even as the science of human-caused warming has become overwhelming.
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Yes, that’s not a very believable appeal.
Just a glimmer of sanity...
Climate change is not an issue with anybody but far-Left liberals.
In a sane world, Algore would be wearing an orange jumpsuit locked up in Club Fed for separating uninformed people from their money.
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