Without a doubt, when there’s a hurricane, a flood, a wildfire, or even something that Democrats perceive as an inequity, somehow they’ll find a way to blame climate change. Of course, the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles County are no exception.
The problem for the radical left is that Americans really aren’t connecting the wildfires with climate change, global warming, or whatever it's calling things these days.
It was comical watching CNN grapple with the reality that its climate alarmism isn’t resonating with the American public. On Monday, Harry Enten and John Berman took a closer look at Google search data and polling trends, and they were shocked and clearly disappointed that the data indicates that while Americans are interested in wildfires they’re not buying the pitch that climate change is the culprit.
Enten laid it out clearly: “Take a look at the monthly change in Google searches. Look at the searches for wildfire, up 2,400%. My goodness gracious! This is the most amount of people searching for wildfires ever, ever.”
But when it comes to climate change? Crickets.
“It’s actually down nine percent,” Enten admitted. Even in California, where the wildfires are raging, there’s been no spike in searches for climate change. His conclusion? “Americans are definitely interested in learning about these wildfires… but they are not making that connection with climate change. That’s the bottom line here.”
Enten was genuinely baffled by this disconnect as if it’s unfathomable that people could be more interested in what’s actually happening in their communities than in buying into the narrative that every disaster is tied to human-caused climate change.
The fearmongering hasn’t worked. Enten noted that despite decades of “extreme weather events” — hurricanes, heat waves, wildfires — Americans’ concern about climate change hasn’t budged. In 1991, 35% of Americans worried about climate change. By 2023, it was at 39%.
“That is not statistically significantly different from this 35% back in 1991,” Enten admitted.
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Even more amusing is the data on whether people think humans contribute a great deal to climate change. Less than half of Americans agree, and the numbers are dropping. Enten explained that in 2019 it was 49% and in 2024 it was 45%.
“That’s actually down four points from where we were back in 2019,” Enten calculated correctly.
It’s almost as if people are seeing through the hysteria and realizing that there are not a lot of facts to back up the hysteria.
Enten and Berman tried to rationalize these trends, speculating that people feel powerless to address climate change. But maybe the real reason is simpler: Americans are tired of being told that every weather event is a sign of impending doom.
Americans aren't making the connection between the wildfires & climate change some would hope. While Google searches for wildfires are up 2,400%, searches for climate change are down 9%.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 13, 2025
Indeed, the % of Americans worried a lot about climate change hasn't budged in 3 decades. pic.twitter.com/ZcooOqpcI0
This is a damning indictment of the mainstream media’s relentless fearmongering. For decades, it has blamed climate change for everything under the sun — wildfires, snowstorms, racism, transphobia, etc. But Americans aren’t buying it. When every problem, no matter how unrelated, is tied to climate change, the narrative loses even more credibility. The data makes it clear: Americans are tuning out the hysteria, and the media’s overplayed hand is finally catching up with them.
