[✔️] August 8, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*August 8, 2022*/

/[CBS news was always highly trusted -- if only on Sunday mornings ]/
*Experts call for more public urgency on climate change*
In a state where every drop of water counts, ornamental grass – which 
accounts for a large percentage of outdoor water use – has been banned 
in Southern Nevada. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with climate and 
water experts about the steps being taken (or not) to address rising 
temperatures; and with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about the lack 
of urgency he says is hampering humanity's ability to counter this 
existential threat to our planet./
/https://www.cbsnews.com/video/experts-call-for-more-public-urgency-on-climate-change//
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/[CNA documentary shows India is in a bad way - very current -- CNA 47 
min video  ]/
*India’s Extreme Summer: Will 45°C Heatwaves Leave Us Out Of Wheat? | 
Insight*
Jul 26, 2022  India experienced an unprecedented heatwave this year. As 
temperatures regularly soared past 45°C in the northern parts of India, 
the country’s wheat producing regions, crops wilted in the fields.

Indian farmers saw their yields plummet, leading to debt and ruin. At 
the same time prices of wheat and related products skyrocketed, and 
ordinary consumer bore the brunt of rising inflation. Food security is 
at risk.

India eventually moved to ban wheat exports, but there are concerns that 
the heat wave is not an anomaly, but an increasingly regular occurrence 
caused by climate change.
Can Indian farmers weather this crisis, and is this a sign of things to 
come?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuuPTqZBd18
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/[ A //1 hour //video lecture about future migrations - //book lecture 
about geography//-  "Oh Max!  Where can we go?  Argentina?"  - Yellow 
Submarine ]/
*The Best Place to Live in 2050? Michigan!*
6,039 views  May 4, 2022  Dr. Parag Khanna, Bestselling Author, Managing 
Partner at FutureMap, in his  book "MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us,"  
presents a compelling view that the forces of catastrophic climate 
change, disrupted economies and destabilized governments will put 
Michigan on the map as a climate oasis and a highly desirable place for 
people to live.

Will we be ready for this potential migration?
This presentation was held on the South Haven campus of Lake Michigan 
College.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWt68n8NOYI

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/    [read a sample from this book ]/
*Move: The Forces Uprooting Us* by Parag Khanna  (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Move-Forces-Uprooting-Parag-Khanna/dp/1982168978/ref=sr_1_1



/[ analysis from ClimateWire of E&E ]/
*‘It’s very bad’: GOP hones climate attacks before elections*
By Scott Waldman | 08/04/2022
Republicans are sharpening their attacks on the Democrats’ climate 
policy as the country races toward midterm elections in less than 100 days.

In public comments and private conversations, Republican lawmakers and 
strategists appear to be settling on a climate and energy message that 
they’ll use leading up to the November elections. They are framing 
policies to reduce emissions as the cause of high gasoline prices, a 
driver of inflation and a form of taxation on working Americans.

“We have a crisis in this country, and it’s not the climate,” Sen. John 
Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told reporters last week. “It’s an energy crisis.”

President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have spent the last week 
celebrating their milestone climate agreement, after Senate Majority 
Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) settled 
on a deal to spend $370 billion on climate and energy security measures 
through the “Inflation Reduction Act.” The measure could be voted on in 
the next few days, though it has a series of hurdles to clear before 
hitting Biden’s desk.

Democrats have hailed it as one of the biggest clean energy investments 
in U.S. history. It could deliver on Biden’s promises to transform the 
energy sector while slashing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions over 
the next seven years.

Republicans see it as an opportunity to portray their opponents as 
reckless spenders as inflation rises.

Since the bill’s introduction last week, Republicans and conservative 
media are attacking the “Inflation Reduction Act” in the same way they 
criticized other climate policies, claiming it would raise taxes and 
drive up prices.

“The Democrats’ approach to tax reform means increasing taxes on low- 
and middle-income Americans to fund their partisan Green New Deal,” Sen. 
Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) told reporters last week.

The bill is a pared-down version of the “Build Back Better” package that 
Biden laid out in the early days of his administration. That past 
legislation proposed spending about $550 billion on climate and energy 
programs.

The newest package would offset $370 billion in climate and energy 
spending by closing a tax loophole on large corporations, raising the 
minimum tax rate to 15 percent. The new spending also includes billions 
of dollars for energy policy that favors the fossil fuel industry, 
including money to clean up methane emissions, carbon capture funding 
and guarantees of oil and gas leasing on public lands.

Both sides see the bill as a political driver in November.

Kellyanne Conway, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, told E&E 
News that Democrats face a problem: Voters don’t look at climate policy 
in isolation.

High inflation rates allow Republicans to talk about climate policy as a 
net negative in people’s lives. High gas prices are making life 
unaffordable for many people, she said.

“It’s going to be a very difficult sell right now for the radical left 
to tell people now they have to pay X, Y and Z because of climate 
change, because they are trying to afford everyday consumables like food 
and fuel,” she said.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is a primary driver of high gas prices, along 
with global inflation, the Covid-19 rebound in energy demand and the 
hesitance of investors in publicly traded energy companies to support a 
production boom.

The GOP’s messaging on gasoline comes as prices have been slowly falling 
for weeks. The average price yesterday was $4.16, down from its high of 
$5.02 on June 14. Energy experts say prices will likely rise heading 
into fall.

*Bernhardt: ‘Americans are concerned’*
GOP energy consultants are also going after Biden’s plan to make the 
grid more reliant on renewable resources such as wind and solar.

“Americans are concerned about a couple things right now,” David 
Bernhardt, Trump’s former Interior secretary, said in an interview. “And 
certainly one of those things is high energy prices. I think it’s very 
bad to have policies where you suggest an alternative without having 
that alternative currently available. And so I think that’s what they’re 
struggling with, and they’ll figure it out, but that’s the consequence 
of heading in that direction.”

Since the beginning of the year, GOP lawmakers have blamed energy price 
spikes on Biden’s executive order that killed the Keystone XL pipeline, 
which would have brought oil from Canada to American refineries. The 
pipeline would not have been in service until next year, at the earliest.

The Republican Party has yet to endorse any climate policy that would 
reduce emissions at a rate that scientists say is necessary to avoid 
some of the worst effects of climate change.

That hasn’t hurt Republican candidates during elections, however, since 
polling shows most GOP voters rank climate near the bottom of their 
electoral priorities.

Despite that, the party’s opposition to climate policies could expose 
candidates to risk in tight races in swing states, some polls suggest.

Surveys show that young voters, including a portion of conservatives, 
increasingly want lawmakers to do more on climate. Almost half of 18- to 
29-year-old Republicans want the government to do more to address 
climate change, according to a Pew Research survey released last month.

As a result, Republicans in the House have crafted policies centered 
around planting more trees and investing in technological advances to 
reduce emissions, as well as increase domestic oil and gas production, 
arguing that it has fewer emissions than fuels produced by other 
countries. The Republican Party has not proposed ideas to cut reliance 
on fossil fuels, the primary driver of climate change.

It remains to be seen if Democrats can pass the “Inflation Reduction 
Act.” But early polling shows it has wide support, including among 
independents who could play an important role in a number of swing 
states this fall.

Americans support the climate provisions of the “Inflation Reduction 
Act” by a wide margin, 47 percent to 30 percent, according to a Yahoo 
News/YouGov survey of 1,600 adults conducted July 28 to Aug. 1. That gap 
increased — 61 percent to 14 percent — when respondents were informed of 
other provisions, such as a reduction in prescription drug costs for 
Medicare recipients.

Some provisions, such as charging a methane fee to oil and gas 
companies, have majority support. For example, 53 percent of voters 
overall support the methane fee, including 54 percent of independents, 
according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released yesterday.

Some conservative media outlets have framed the “Inflation Reduction 
Act” as a tax on Americans and a driver of inflation, even though the 
bill pledges to reduce the deficit by $300 billion.

In the last year, Fox News has long been sympathetic to Manchin, who 
previously blocked much of Biden’s climate policy. There are signs of a 
shift now that the West Virginian is supporting the climate and energy bill.

On Tuesday, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner accused Manchin of 
disappointing people who saw him as a roadblock to Democrats’ climate 
efforts.

“What they see is a senator who they thought was moderate who might push 
back on some of the talk about forcing us into a green situation,” she said.

The interview turned hostile when Faulkner claimed that the plan would 
tax Americans making less than $400,000 a year, a common talking point 
used by Republicans.

“That’s a lie. That’s a pure, outright lie,” Manchin said.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/its-very-bad-gop-hones-climate-attacks-before-elections/



/[The news archive - looking back yes, even a decade ago there was 
serious understanding of our condition ]/
/*August 8, 2012*/

August 8, 2012: On Current TV's "Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer," NASA 
climate scientist James Hansen discusses the risk of climate change, and 
the concept of fee-and-dividend as a way to reduce emissions.

http://youtu.be/F6B6ovpWpTs

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