CNN data analyst dumps cold water on climate alarmism: It ‘has not really worked’

Although elites like Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have been pushing climate alarmism on the masses for decades, most people have never bought what they were selling. In fact, data shows that climate change has not been a defining issue for many people for a long time, one CNN analyst argued.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten demonstrated that the American people’s concern about climate change has remained surprisingly consistent for decades and has even possibly declined in more recent years.

“What are we talking about? Greatly worried about climate. You go all the way back to 1989, it was 35%. 2000, 40%. 2020, 46%. And in 2025, look at that — it’s 40%, the same number as we had 25 years ago back in 2000, and then only just five points higher than we had back in 1989. Really we’ve just seen consistency on this issue,” Enten explained.

‘It will not lead to humanity’s demise.’

Enten showed that the number of Americans who see climate change as a top issue is and has been negligible for roughly the past four years. One 2025 poll indicated that just 17% of Democrats believe climate change will make staying in their home area “harder,” Enten revealed.

Noting Gates’ recent tone shift on the issue, Enten said most people would “agree” with Gates’ new assessment that climate change won’t be the end of humanity.

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“The bottom line is that the climate change message that folks who, of course, believe that climate change is real and is quite worrisome, simply put, has not really worked with the American people,” Enten said.

Just this week, Gates altered his approach to climate change, one of his trademark issues.

“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future,” Gates wrote in his October 28 essay, “Three tough truths about climate.”

“The biggest problems are poverty and disease, just as they always have been,” Gates continued.

While Gates did not completely dismiss his emphasis on climate change, this shift comes after at least 20 years of efforts to raise concern in the public consciousness about an existential threat. Gates famously warned that the climate was a bigger issue than COVID in the midst of the pandemic in 2020.

“Whether or not he’s following the science or public opinion, there does seem to be a shift here,” CNN anchor John Berman told Enten.

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