silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 22 days ago‘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.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down12cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-link‘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.orgsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square14linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.worldclimate@slrpnk.net
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·22 days agoThe 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.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·22 days agoSo 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.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·22 days agoThe amount has dropped a lot though
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·22 days agoAccording to the data in the link, it was averaging 3 digits in 2021, almost a third of the current rate.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·22 days agoAre you looking at absolute numbers or at fraction of press releases? Because there is a big difference between the two
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoOh 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
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.
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.
The amount has dropped a lot though
According to the data in the link, it was averaging 3 digits in 2021, almost a third of the current rate.
Are you looking at absolute numbers or at fraction of press releases? Because there is a big difference between the two
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