If you're willing to lie about the climate, what are you not willing to lie about?
There are few things as cut and dried as hundred year old physics. There are few things as obvious as the fact that if you extract massive amounts of hydrocarbons from the ground, burn them, and change the mass, volume, and composition of the atmosphere, other atmospheric parameters such as temperature, wind speed, and humidity are going to change, too. And there are few things as consequential as ecosystem collapse, mass extinction, and climate chaos. And yet, politicians continue to delay climate action and the corporate media continue to help them get away with it.
When Rick Caruso ran for Los Angeles Mayor, the media refused to mention that he has 0 solar panels on billions of dollars of real estate, and, if elected, would most likely have appointed climate change deniers to run the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States. By spending $100M on advertising, he gained the support of all major media outlets, and they completely ignored the dramatic difference between his climate position and that of Karen Bass (who fortunately won). Although Caruso changed his party registration from Republican to Democrat immediately before running, he did that because LA doesn't elect Republicans any more. He also claimed to support abortion rights in spite of a history of supporting anti-abortion groups. In short, Caruso is a Republican climate change denier who bought unflinching support from the entire corporate media establishment.
This support of a climate change denying Republican politician (Rick Caruso) is par for the course for corporate media. The corporate media always refuses to connect climate change with voting, even when a climate disaster hits during an election. That habit rubs off on others. Even News Corpse failed to mention the climate when writing about differences between Trump and Biden.
Right wing politicians made the policies that shower subsidies on the fossil fuel industry while giving them unfettered access to destroy public lands. They packed the courts with climate change denying judges. They drive climate change as much as Exxon does, and the corporate media helps them.
The climate is as clear of an issue as abortion, but the press refuses to talk about it because they don't want to upset their advertisers. Also, they profit from climate disasters because people read their climate disaster stories, which are almost as popular as their war stories and celebrity stories.
The media has now spent 40 years working with industry and right wing politicians to delay taking climate action, and we should not expect them to change now. It's up to us to keep voters thinking about the climate; we will not get any help from the media or their robber baron owners. Some politicians are with us on this, but they're fighting the same uphill battle we are.
The climate is a clear issue and it's important. It also serves as a simple litmus test of candidates; politicians who delay climate action are usually regressive on most other issues. If people vote based on climate, our victory becomes easy.