WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – President Joe Biden and the White House are facing blowback after referring to voters and lawmakers who oppose large-scale climate spending bills and question the science behind man-made climate change as “Neanderthals.”
According to the New York Post, Biden made the comments while visiting Brownsville, Texas, to speak to border agents and officials about the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border, saying, “There’s no such thing as climate change. I love that, man. I love some of my Neanderthal friends who still think there’s no climate change.”
“Anyone who willfully denies the impact of climate change is condemning the American people to a very dangerous future. Impacts are only going to get worse, more frequent, more ferocious, and more costly. None of this is inevitable,” Biden continued.
This was not the first time the President referred to ideological opponents as Neanderthals, as he also used the term to describe states that lifted mask requirements back in 2021, saying, “The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything’s fine; take off your mask; forget it. It still matters.”
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham responded to Biden’s 2021 use of the term, saying, “If Texas’s policy of trying to return to normal—after a vaccine has been developed and distributed—is ‘Neanderthal’ then what do you call the Biden Administration’s decision to release migrants into the United States who test positive for COVID-19?”
The President’s comments come only a matter of months after the Norwegian government published a study providing evidence that humans aren’t responsible for the earth’s temperature changes as much as some experts claim, saying, “It is still a difficult challenge to establish how much of this change is due to increasing man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases.”
“Temperature reconstructions indicate that there is a ‘warming’ trend that seems to have been going on for as long as approximately 400 years. Before the last 250 years or so, such a trend could only be due to natural causes,” and “the results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations. In other words, our analysis indicates that with the current level of knowledge, it seems impossible to determine how much of the temperature increase is due to emissions of CO2,” their study concluded.
According to Bloomberg, Biden leads former President Trump by 13 points on the issue of climate change with voters, and a USA Today/Iposos poll released last fall found that Democrats are much more likely to say they’ve experienced extreme weather events recently compared with Republicans, 57% to 44%.
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