Your Fault: There’s A Lot Of Climate Hushing Going On

It’s easy to broadcast a lot on ‘climate change’ when there’s little going on, but, when people have real concerns the cult takes a backseat. Plus, I just think the cult has been overplayed in the media, people are mostly tired of the end of the world doom

Climate Worries Rise but Dialogue Fades

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

There’s a stark disconnect between Americans’ worry about climate change and the amount of attention the issue is receiving publicly, a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) and George Mason University found.

A majority of the American public is worried about global warming, believe it is affecting the cost of living, and want to vote for a candidate who will take action on the issue, yet media coverage and political discourse on the issue has been declining.

Only 17% of Americans surveyed said they hear about climate change in the media at least once a week and only 9% of Americans say they hear about it on social media once a week.

“We’re hearing a lot of climate hushing among the political class, many of whom presume that Americans … don’t want to hear about climate change. That’s not what we see in the data. There are 68 million Americans who are ‘Alarmed’ about climate change, and they want to hear about solutions. They want to hear more from their leaders as well as the media,”said Anthony Leiserowitz, YPCC director and the JoshAni-TomKat Professor of Climate Communication at YSE.  The fall 2025 survey, Climate Change in the American Mind, which has been conducted twice each year since 2008, found that:

They have been programed for Doom, but, things change in the Real World. Heck, do you hear much about Ukraine anymore? How about Gaza? COVID? The War on Terror? Can you believe 9/11 was 25 years ago?

Anyhow, those 68 million Americans never seem to be alarmed enough to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, eh?