[✔️] January 2, 2023- Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Mon Jan 2 11:44:57 EST 2023
/*January 2, 2023*/
/[ NPR report - text, audio and transcript]/
*Republicans get a louder voice on climate change as they take over the
House*
December 30, 2022
Heard on All Things Considered
JEFF BRADY
As Republicans prepare to take control of the U.S. House of
Representatives next week, the highlights of their approach to climate
change and energy issues can be summed up in a Toby Keith song.
"Made in America" centers on an aging farmer with "dirty hands and a
clean soul." The song says it "breaks his heart seeing foreign cars,
filled with fuel that isn't ours." The video shows an older white man,
flags waving and builds to a crescendo of, "He ain't prejudice, he's
just made in America."
The song, released more than a decade ago, played as Republican House
leaders strode on stage near Pittsburgh in September to announce their
"Commitment to America." In addition to issues like crime and
immigration, energy and climate policy comes under a section on the
economy on current Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's website.
- -
*Making a statement*
While House Republicans may have difficulty passing laws, their majority
comes with a big voice and they plan to use it.
At the event outside Pittsburgh, Republican Whip and Louisiana Rep.
Steve Scalise highlighted concern over gasoline prices and the cost to
heat homes. "We have a plan to lower energy costs — to get us back, not
only to lower energy costs, but energy independence. We shouldn't be
buying oil and natural gas from Russia or Iran or Saudi Arabia. We can
make it right here in America, like you make steel in Pittsburgh," said
Scalise as the crowd applauded.
From that, you might not know U.S. oil production has been on the rise
for more than a decade and most imported oil comes from Canada. Also,
the U.S. was a net exporter of petroleum products for 2020 and 2021.
Despite a warming planet, Republicans and the oil industry say there's
room for more growth in domestic fossil fuel production. It's worth
noting that oil and gas companies give campaign contributions
overwhelmingly to the GOP.
Another way Republican leaders plan to use their new voice is by
scrutinizing a budget law Democrats passed this year, called the
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It allocates the most money ever for
climate change efforts, about $370 billion.
Some Republicans are particularly interested in a Department of Energy
loan program designed to advance cleaner technologies the private sector
won't yet fund. Under the IRA, the program will be expanded.
"It's Solyndra on steroids," says Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris
Rodgers, who is the Republican leader on the House Energy and Commerce
Committee and likely will become chair.
Solyndra was a solar power company, backed by federal loan guarantees,
that collapsed in a spectacular bankruptcy during the Obama
administration. It cost the federal government more than a half-billion
dollars, though the loan guarantee program recovered from that loss a
few years later.
In a video on Twitter McMorris Rodgers expressed concern that the IRA,
"pumps $250 billion of loan authority into a similar type of loan
guarantee program." She sent a letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer
Granholm about the loan program. Republicans on the Energy and Commerce
Committee at the end of September sent more than a dozen inquiries to
the Biden administration — a preview of the oversight work GOP leaders
say they expect to do more of in 2023.
- -
"We now have to ensure that the Inflation Reduction Act is implemented
and that that happens quickly," says Tiernan Sittenfeld, who's senior
vice president of government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters.
The Biden administration has a goal of 50 - 52% reduction in greenhouse
gas emissions, based on 2005 levels, by 2030. Sittenfeld says the IRA
should get the country to 40%. That still leaves 10% left to cut.
Sittenfeld says executive actions, such as regulations to reduce power
plant and transportation emissions, could help the country make that up.
She says states with their own climate plans, notably California and New
York, also will contribute. New climate legislation, though, may have
to wait.
"We are already looking to the 2024 elections and making sure that we
elect environmental champions up and down the ballot," says Sittenfeld.
With a presidential election on the horizon in two years, the country's
transition away from climate-warming fossil fuel emissions continues.
New tax credits are coming into effect for a wide range of
climate-friendly purchases, like buying an electric car or a more
efficient furnace. Those begin Jan. 1 — two days before Republicans take
control of the House.
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1145083067/republicans-get-a-louder-voice-on-climate-change-as-they-take-over-the-house
/[ Psychology Today article ] /
*Transilience: A New Way to Think About Climate Change*
Going beyond resilience to look at how we rise to climate-driven challenges.
Posted January 1, 2023
KEY POINTS
- - It is increasingly imperative that we better understand the
psychology of human action and inaction regarding climate change.
- - Researchers have proposed a three-factor “Climate Change
Transilience Scale” grounded in persistence, adaptability, and
transformability.
- - Further studies are needed to evaluate the relationships between
transilience, health, and behavior.
- -
Developing the Climate Change Transilience Scale
Environmental psychologists Nasi, Jans, and Steg (2022), in the Journal
of Environmental Psychology, ask the titular question, “Can we do more
than ‘bounce back’?”, proposing the concept of “transilience.”
Transilience goes beyond resilience to include not only the capacity to
avoid negative outcomes and accommodate change, but also to “persist,
adapt flexibly, and positively transform in the face of climate change
risks.” Over the course of four studies, they proposed and tested a
three-factor “Climate Change Transilience Scale” (CCTS), grounded in
three candidate factors:
*1. Persistence. *The perceived capacity to persist in the face of
climate change risks, capturing core elements of resilience and calling
out the importance of persistence, a trait generally associated with
success in the face of adversity.
*2. Adaptability.* The perceived capacity to adapt flexibly to climate
change risks, looking at how well people are able to see a range of
potential responses, rather than becoming narrowly focused. Seeing more
possibilities in response to a challenge, referred to as “divergent
thinking,” is a hallmark of creative problem-solving.
*3. Transformability. *The perceived capacity to positively transform by
adapting to climate change risks. This factor parallels the concept of
post-traumatic growth (PTG), a way people respond to adversity with
positive growth, leveraging self-efficacy and community to get to a
better place in response to difficult challenges. This includes both
making positive concrete changes as well as finding new meaning, and has
received increased attention as we contend with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Future Directions for Transilience in Response to Climate Crisis
While climate change negatively impacts health and well-being on
individual and collective levels, study authors point out that that in
addition to the detrimental impact of climate change, there are
opportunities for people to respond with a growth mindset:
“Our results generally seem to indicate that transilience does not imply
that climate change is no longer seen as an adversity; it also seems
that, although people may feel negative affect about climate change,
they may still feel that they can do something about it (i.e., they feel
less impaired). Altogether, our research allows to broaden and bring a
positive angle on the psychological responses to climate change.”
Future research is needed to validate further the CCTS, test it across a
broader range of cultures, look for connections with other models of
growth and adaptation (e.g. PTG), and further look at relationships
between transilience, health, and behavior, and hopefully understand how
to use this knowledge to facilitate more effective action locally and
globally.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychiatry-for-the-people/202301/transilience-a-new-way-to-think-about-climate-change
/[ Eliot makes predictions -- a trained expert in risk, math and climate ]/
*My 2023 Predictions: The F&%kery Continues*
Climate Casino
Dec 26, 2022 SANTA BARBARA
Links for today's video:
https://www.climatecasino.net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9nmxlA5CQ
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/[ Eliot Jacobson a bit of philosophizing -- freedom, falsehood, Zen, ]/
*What is the Purpose of Being a Doomer?*
Climate Casino
Jan 1, 2023 SANTA BARBARA
This video is an excerpt from my live broadcast on 12/31/2022 in which I
answer the question posed in the live chat, "What is the purpose of
being a doomer?"
Here is a link to the full live broadcast: https://youtu.be/CQvEvoDg0dc
And here is a link to my recent appearance on the YouTube channel Soft
White Underbelly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QoOtPxuz8
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/[ "to be a doomer is to be an activist" -- it's not doom, it's sadness ]/
*Doomer (Doomsday Theorist) interview-Eliot*
Soft White Underbelly
Dec 30, 2022
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Eliot, a doomer in Santa
Barbara, California.
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/[ Australia predicts lower populations ]/
*BC News In-depth*
323,475 views Nov 15, 2022 #ABCNewsAustralia #ABCNewsIndepth
The United Nations estimates that on November 15, the world will have a
population of 8 billion people.
Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Read more here: https://ab.co/3EbZl7R
China remains the biggest country for now. But India will overtake it
very soon. And Africa is growing faster than anywhere else. ABC Data
Analyst Casey Briggs finds out what this will mean for the future.
ABC News In-depth takes you deeper on the big stories, with long-form
journalism from Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Australian Story,
Planet America and more, and explainers from ABC News Video Lab.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DXniZGkME
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*January 2, 2014*/
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones explains to the willfully ignorant that
snow doesn't disprove climate change.
1. Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not
individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and
anecdotes are not statistics.
2. Global warming is actually expected to increase “heavy
precipitation in winter storms,” and for the northern hemisphere,
there is evidence that these storms are already more frequent and
intense, according to the draft US National Climate Assessment.
3. Antarctica is a very cold place. But global warming is affecting
it as predicted: Antarctica is losing ice overall, according to the
latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
However, sea ice is a different matter than land-based or glacial
ice. Antarctic sea ice is increasing, and moreover, the reason for
this may be climate change! (For more, read here.)
Finally, just one last thing. When it’s winter on Earth, it’s also
summer on Earth…somewhere else. Thus, allow us to counter anecdotal
evidence about cold weather with more anecdotal evidence: It’s blazing
hot in Australia, with temperatures, in some regions, set to possibly
soar above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the coming days.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/blizzards-dont-refute-global-warming
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