More proof. If you read this blog you are a step ahead.
I reported the other day on how greens in Colorado had started cleverly tying anti-science climate denial with other social issues where some conservative candidates are out of step with majority opinion, – and posted the new television ads by Tom Steyer’s Nextgen campaign.
Now its a meme.
At first glance, the digital billboards raised in Colorado’s Grand Junction ahead of a debate this week appear to be a generic attack from the left aimed at Republican Senate candidate Rep. Cory Gardner. “Opposes marriage equality? There’s no debate,” one of the ads reads, directing viewers to KeepCoryOut.com.
But the fine print contains a surprise. The ads were paid for by NextGen Climate, the super PAC bankrolled by billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who vowed to make climate change a wedge issue in the midterms.
The latest example came on Wednesday when the group released a set of ads hitting Republican Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land (MI) for taking money from David H. Koch and Charles Koch. The ad hits the Koch brothers for dumping Petroleum Coke “some of the dirtiest oil waste imaginable” in a part of Michigan.” The ad mostly splits between focusing directly on the environment and the Koch Brothers.
Watch the ad here:
In Colorado, NextGen has billboards up attacking Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the Republican nominee for Senate, on birth control and same-sex marriage. The billboards, according a release flagged by The Denver Post “remind Western Slope voters of Congressman Gardner’s reckless views on women’s health, marriage equality and climate science denial.”
In Iowa, NextGen Climate has attacked state Sen. Joni Ernst (R), the GOP nominee there, for supporting deep tax cuts and policies encouraging outsourcing. In July the group released an ad attacking Ernst, one of the GOP’s star candidates this cycle, for signing on to Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
These may seem like tangents for a climate change group but strategists for NextGen say that there are a set of topics that voters who are interested in climate change also care about.
It’s the idea that “climate fits very neatly into a series of issues that define the Republican band as being extreme and out of touch,” NextGen Senior Strategist Chris Lehane said in a conference call on Wednesday.
But you folks don’t need to be on Tom Steyer’s mailing list. Consider this blog your personal conference call.
Stay tuned.
So green groups want to dive into the traditional liberal-vs-conservative civil war. Lovely. There are a lot of conservatives who are wavering at the anti-science wackos who insist a new ice age is just around the corner. The assumption that these voters will automatically turn into gay marriage supporters is a stretch. Are you going to throw in a few other controversies into the mix like repealing the death penalty, an anti-smoking campaign, hate-crime laws, condemnation of Israel over Gaza, and (like former Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney) slavery reparations for black people?
Perhaps you think that the world is neatly divided into two opposing camps, where everyone on side A thinks alike on all issues, and everyone on side B thinks the opposite. That’s certainly the Fox News view of the world. If the brilliant new strategy of greens is to dive into this culture war, good luck with it.
As someone who believes in both nuclear power and AGW, I already cause a few heads to explode. My views on a number of other issues are also all over the map. Not all issues are simple – AGW, and the solutions to it, are complicated enough without tying it to social issues like sexuality and religion. I’d like to suggest that if you want to bring in conservative voters to support your cause, it might be better to stay focused.
Opposition to gay marriage, birth control, anti-smoking campaigns, etc. is very similar to global-warming denial. It is driven by data-free ideology.
If those of a particular political persuasion choose to divorce themselves from reality (and in doing so put others at risk) then a multi-pronged attack that demonstrates to the general public how delusional they are is absolutely called for.
Well…
Though it’s nice to finally see climate change come out of the closet, as it were, can I just say? I HATE turning the TV on now. It’s NEVER. ENDING. HATE. dark voices accusing the other guy of being evil. Ugh. Dark money needs to GO AWAY.
Is not this ad campaign the same hate except from the greens? it does not seem to be about the CO2 debate it is about all other issues. The CO2 claims of the greens are bogus as the science does not support them. CO2 in 800000 years of data from the ice core studies never changed the climate as its levels changed which is the same today as than. Since the climate has not changed in 16 years per the giss data set, all this climate change seems a bit overblown. You might note the NOAA ice measurements in the arctic show a return to average levels in 2013 and as of august much higher levels, the levels are measured in September so we will see if that holds up. Per NOAA the US average temperature has dropped slightly from 1998 so we are not warming either. The hottest US tempeature since 1895 was 1936, 78 years ago.
I’m failrly sure there’s a Climate Crock video or two in Peter’s archive he made just for you.
I doubt it. Fellion’s gallop is too well written to be the product of a stupid mind – this guy is an insincere troll – he has no interest in actually learning something.
You might note the NOAA ice measurements in the arctic show a return to average levels in 2013 and as of august much higher levels…
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
The hottest US tempeature since 1895 was 1936, 78 years ago.
Global annual-avg temps in 1936: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?sat=4&sst=3&type=anoms&mean_gen=1212&year1=1936&year2=1936&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=rob
Global annual-avg temps in 2013 (most recent full year): http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?sat=4&sst=3&type=anoms&mean_gen=1212&year1=2013&year2=2013&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=rob
Best thing I ever did was save myself $70.00 per month by dropping cable. No more talking heads. No more commercials. No more high blood pressure. No more sense of constant fear.