[TheClimate.Vote] April 12, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

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/*April 12, 2020*/

[Political differences]
*Republicans and Democrats differ in why they support renewable energy*
Anthony Leiserowitz
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111448
Highlights

    Republicans and Democrats support renewable energy policy, but for
    different reasons.
    Republicans' (more than Democrats') support is driven by perceived
    economic benefits.
    Democrats' (more than Republicans') support is driven by global
    warming concerns.

These patterns emerge from both self-reported priorities and from 
predictive models.

*Abstract:*

    Americans strongly support policies aimed at increasing the use of
    renewable energy. Prior research has found that, overall, support
    for renewable energy tends to be motivated primarily by people's
    perceptions that it creates economic benefits and reduces
    environmental harms. However, the extant research has not
    established how these motivations vary across political segments.
    Here we investigate (a) if and how Republicans and Democrats differ
    in their stated motivations for supporting a transition to renewable
    energy, and (b) what demographic and attitudinal variables best
    predict Republicans' and Democrats' support for renewable energy
    policies. Using a nationally representative sample of American
    registered voters, we found a consistent pattern across multiple
    methods of analysis: Republicans' (compared to Democrats') support
    for renewable energy is driven more by considerations of economic
    costs/benefits, whereas Democrats' (compared to Republicans')
    support is driven more by concern about global warming. These
    partisan differences hold significant implications for those who
    seek to effectively tailor policy and strategic communication to
    these political segments.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421520302019?dgcid=author

[Holy See says!]
*Pope Francis says coronavirus could be 'nature's response' to climate 
change*
Pope Francis likened the coronavirus pandemic to recent fires and floods 
as one of "nature's responses" to the world's ambivalence to climate change.

There is an expression in Spanish: 'God always forgives, we forgive 
sometimes, but nature never forgives,'" the pope said in an interview 
published Wednesday in The Tablet, a United Kingdom-based Catholic weekly.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/pope-says-coronavirus-could-be-a-reaction-to-climate-change/
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*[Source material]*
**Pope Francis says pandemic can be a 'place of conversion'*
In an exclusive interview recorded for The Tablet - his first for a UK 
publication - Pope Francis says that this extraordinary Lent and 
Eastertide could be a moment of creativity and conversion for the 
Church, for the world, and for the whole of creation.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/17845/pope-francis-says-pandemic-can-be-a-place-of-conversion-

[NYTimes NONFICTION]
*Facing the Climate Change Crisis, Three Books Offer Some Ambitious 
Proposals*
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***THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE*
Surviving the Crisis
By Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

    Perhaps most unsatisfying, the book is presented as an action guide
    but offers few actions the average reader can actually take. Many of
    the pages focus on how one can cultivate the right mind-set, an
    especially puzzling section because it comes after the authors have
    chastised us for being too individualistic. (Yet of the 10 actions
    they highlight, only one mentions cultivating community.) It's not
    that the action statements are bad -- nobody would argue with
    engaging with politics, or nurturing a shared positive vision for
    the future -- but the book falls short on telling us how.

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*THE STORY OF MORE*
How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here
By Hope Jahren

    "We wake in the morning and leave our homes and we work, work, work,
    to keep the great global chain of procurement in place," she writes
    in a section focused on food waste. "Then we throw 40 percent of
    everything we just accomplished into the garbage. We can never get
    those hours back. Our children grow up, our bodies wane, and death
    comes to claim some of those we love. All the while, we spend our
    days making things for the purpose of discarding them."

- -
*THE 100% SOLUTION*
A Plan for Solving Climate Change
By Solomon Goldstein-Rose

    While he offers five pillars of emissions reduction, he doesn't
    quantify how much we can reasonably expect to bring down the level
    of carbon. This is probably because his solutions depend in part on
    highly efficient technologies that he admits don't exist yet. To
    create them, he calls for a national effort on climate change akin
    to the one that sent humans to the moon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/books/review/story-of-more-hope-jahren-future-we-choose.html

[obit]
*S. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95*
Derided as a "Merchant of Doubt," he spent decades trying to refute the 
evidence of global warming and other environmental risks.
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In an interview, Dr. Oreskes, who is a historian of science at Harvard 
University, noted that Dr. Singer singled out reputable climate 
scientists for personal and professional attack. "I think he did a lot 
of damage, through literally decades of casting doubt on established 
science," she said.
  - -
In 1990, Dr. Singer created the Science and Environmental Policy Project 
"to challenge government environmental policies based on poor science," 
as the group's website states. He would later try to undercut the work 
of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by 
creating a think tank called the Nongovernmental International Panel on 
Climate Change.

The U.N. group warned in 1995 that warming "is likely to cause 
widespread economic, social and environmental dislocation over the next 
century if emissions of heat-trapping gases are not reduced." Dr. Singer 
remained unfazed. "They have no evidence. None," he told fellow 
contrarians at a conference in Copenhagen in 2009.

With the coming of the Trump administration, climate contrarians were 
once again in demand, and Dr. Singer was considered "the most senior of 
Mr. Trump's experts on climate change," Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow 
at Heartland, wrote last year in an essay in The Washington Times...
more at - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/climate/s-fred-singer-dead.html

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[fame and infamy]
*Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on 
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming*
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Jun 3, 2010 - Science
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such 
areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting 
quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the 
dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the 
same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world 
in vehement denial of these dangers...
https://books.google.com/books?id=fpMh3nh3JI0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming  - April 12, 2013 *
Joe Romm of Climate Progress and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center 
for Atmospheric Research point out the flaws in a NOAA study regarding 
recent droughts in the United States.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/12/1859541/yes-climate-change-is-worsening-us-drought-noaa-report-needlessly-confuses-the-issue/

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