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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
@DoctorVive
Jul 19, 2020 • 12 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
This past week Biden gave a major speech about his plan to put fighting #ClimateChange at the center of America's post-Covid recovery.

Foolishly I assumed that the Sunday shows would have discussed this speech today.

How stupid of me. They didn't even mention it.

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Usually when my research assistant tells me that the broadcast news has failed to cover a climate story, I will do back-channel outreach and then, if that's ignored, @EndClimtSilence will take to Twitter to call out anchors and producers for their climate silence.

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But I'm not going to do that today. I am exhausted. And I am filled with a sense of foreboding, since I've seen this happen before.

When I was first active on Twitter, I wrote a thread about attending a 2015 speech Hillary Clinton gave about climate & manufacturing.👇

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And in this thread I reported that an HRC staffer had said that Clinton had wanted to campaign on #ClimateChange in 2016, but she dropped climate as a focus because it didn't earn her any media.

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I feel like I'm in a nightmare version of Groundhog Day.

Biden gives a speech about an American economic renaissance grounded in climate standards, investments, and justice, and the broadcast news media buries it. Just like they buried Clinton's climate vision in 2016.

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In 2017 I blamed the Democratic party for the fact that "climate messaging" was failing to gain traction. Now I know better.

Now I know that the fault lies with the broadcast news media's climate silence.

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As @davidshor points out in this illuminating interview with @EricLevitz in @NYMag, " Most persuadable voters get their news from the networks’ nightly news broadcasts and CNN."

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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But polling from @amprog and @DataProgress shows that persuadable voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the GOP position on climate change and fundamentally LIKE climate policy.

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@EndClimtSilence is now doing polling which we expect will show that these voters *also* want to hear about climate change in their news coverage. We will bring that polling to the networks and CNN.

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But so that Biden's #GreenRecovery gets traction, & so that our children have a chance at a future, we hope that @algore, @JohnKerry, @AOC, @ClimatePower, @EvergreenAction, & @sunrisemvmt will also push the broadcast news media to cover #ClimateChange & #EndClimateSilence.

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@mmfa @Poynter @CoveringClimate @CJR
2017 HRC thread here:

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Sep 20
I am very proud that Ted Nordhaus, @mattyglesias, and right-wingers like Judy Curry are attacking my book. It means they feel threatened by my analysis of their rhetoric in favor of expanding fossil fuels. This is good!

I must say, however, that their attacks are spurious.

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@mattyglesias This week The Breakthrough Institute published a blog post written by some guy I blocked on Twitter for misogyny years ago, who claims that errors he found in my text prove my research is faulty.



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@mattyglesias This post did find two errors in my book. Thanks for that!

But its other claims are incorrect, perhaps because its author has no understanding of scholarly responsibility and striking problems with reading comprehension.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Aug 15
Last month I spoke to @350NYC about William Nordhaus and economics of decarbonization, using material from *The Language of Climate Politics*.

TL/DR: all too much discourse about the “cost” of climate policy is bullshit.

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A prime piece of fossil-fuel propaganda is that resolving the climate crisis will “cost” Americans too much.

But the truth is rather the opposite: NOT halting global heating will, within decades, cost Americans way more than creating a net zero economy.

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In fact, phasing out fossil fuels and creating a net zero, ecologically integrated economy will make 90% of people on this planet, including most Americans, way better off than they are now.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther Profile picture
Aug 15
Is #ClimateChange a winning electoral issue for @TheDemocrats?

Here's what @pewresearch data says.

69% of Americans favor the US working to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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67% of Republicans under 30 want the US to prioritize clean energy development.

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You may hear from pundits that Americans place a low priority on climate. But overall 71% of Americans say climate should be a Congressional priority.

59% of Democrats say it should be THE TOP PRIORITY.

@brianschatz @USRepKCastor @EdMarkey

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Jul 23
OK Twitter, here's the theory of change that underlies the new climate messages I offer in *The Language of Climate Politics*

Let me begin by saying: focus-groups show my messages increase support for phasing out fossil fuels by up to 10 pts among Dems AND REPUBLICANS who...

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...who are concerned and alarmed about the #ClimateCrisis.

(The rubric of the "concerned" and the "alarmed" comes from @YaleClimateComm's and @Mason4C's "Global Warming's Six Americas.")

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As of Fall 2023, the "concerned" and the "alarmed" compose a majority of Americans — not the climate choir, but, again, the majority of Americans.

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Jul 20
In all the drama over Biden, & all the mockery of Trump's unhinged (yet super-boring) convention speech, I haven't seen much attention to the language of climate politics during the Republican Convention.

But the GOP did unveil new climate propaganda, so let's take a look!

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First of all, both Vance and Trump introduced a new term, replacing "hoax," that suggests climate change isn't real.

That term is "Green New Scam."

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The word "scam" will of course be familiar to anyone who follows climate news on X and is thereby exposed to the MAGA tolls using the "ClimateScam" hashtag.

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Jul 18
Coming back to this to say, now that I've read his speech: Vance delivered a powerful message, whose strength comes from its (ersatz) COMPASSION.

It acknowledged all the ways that America does suck for most people living here.

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Of course Vance went on to blame Democrats and immigrants for working-class Americans' suffering, which is of course absurd (but not *totally* absurd, given that even Dems were embracing neoliberal economic theory, if tempered by some Great Society policies like Obamacare).

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Yes, this is just the rhetoric of populism, which exemplifies Adorno's dictum about ideology ("an imaginary relationship to one's real conditions of existence"), because obviously Trump and the GOP are on the economic side of the rich and the rich only.

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