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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

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‘Climate hushing’ has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it’s a mistake. Climate change might not be a top priority for voters, but keeping quiet about it might backfire. (grist.org)
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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So this article has two sources, neither or which were readable on my device because of paywall or such.

Is there any actual stats on how often the DNC talk about climate change?

Even if you think they should talk more, their policy platform has very demonstably, through actions louder than words, been about green power, phasing out gas and coal, and empowering the EPA.

EDIT: Thanks to a source provided by another commenter we can see the number of mentions largely haven't changed by either party in over a decade. LINK HERE

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The DNC, no. There isn't even a public membership list.

There are statistics for elected Democrats in Congress though. And they really did largely stop talking about climate.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So your article source is the same as the second source in the article in the post.

EDIT: No, sorry, my mistake, it just attempts to reproduce the data. Good source.

Looking at the raw files it appears they mentioned it a fuckload of times, though.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The amount has dropped a lot though

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the data in the link, it was averaging 3 digits in 2021, almost a third of the current rate.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are you looking at absolute numbers or at fraction of press releases? Because there is a big difference between the two

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh okay, my apologies, clearly them mentioning climate change to the press 3 times as often is them refusing to talk about it at all. /sarcasm