After years of media alarm over heat domes and planetary crisis warnings, a leading climate advocate has hit a political reality: voters care far more about issues closer to home than climate change.

Recently, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told John Berman that, despite decades of messaging and claims July was the hottest U.S. month on record, only 3% of voters rank climate change as a top midterm concern—well behind the economy and immigration.

Americans are tired of every heat wave being called a catastrophe—especially after the same certainty once warned of a coming ice age.

People know summers are hot and reject costly climate panic over every high reading. They prioritize jobs and immigration over trace CO₂ in the air.

The gap between elite climate messaging and voter concerns is now too wide for even CNN to ignore.