08/30/23 When Truth, Is The Hoax

One surprise to me during the recent GOP presidential primary debate was when Vivek Ramaswamy called climate change “a hoax”, some in the roomful of GOP supporters booed him. He has been trying to become the previous president’s mini-me on these issues. His plan has been to ingratiate himself with Trump supporters and position to take the bulk of them if the pending criminal trials go badly for the former president. This significant change in GOP sentiment, represented by a GOP audience booing candidates who spin climate change off as a hoax, has been showing up in polls. Particularly, republican young people have accepted made-made climate change is real and not a hoax. Mathematicians and Physicists have proven man-made climate change by the numbers. There is no ideological solution, instead requiring science-based policy actions. Considering how taboo the subject of man-made climate change has been in the past with the core GOP, many were surprised that the question would even be asked at the debate. Asked by the moderator of the debate, “How will you as both president of the United States and leader of the Republican Party calm fears that the Republican Party doesn’t care about climate change?” None…