Vice President Kamala Harris reversed her position on fracking when she became her party’s presidential candidate this summer, and it is not just because the energy industry employs so many people in Pennsylvania, although that was an additional incentive. It is because voters simply no longer buy the Democratic Party’s climate fearmongering. They do not reject the truth of manmade warming, but they rightly reject the Left’s constant and constantly eroding climate alarmism, and they believe other matters are far more important. They voted accordingly, and now President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, is set to bring much-needed perspective to the matter.

According to Gallup, of the 22 matters offered to voters as being the most important in influencing their vote, climate change came second to last, followed only by transgender rights. Similarly, of the 10 matters tracked by the Pew Research Center, climate change came dead last. Whatever else voters are upset about, warmer winters and other climate phenomena are not bothering them.