[✔️] March 3, 2024 Global Warming News | Pew data on Republicans, Nate Hagen on 7 interventions, Health faces climate disruption, March 3, 2003 Luntz laurnc

Sun Mar 3 08:24:25 EST 2024

/*March*//*3, 2024*/

/[ a few clips and charts from Pew Research Center ]/
*How Republicans view climate change and energy issues*
BY BRIAN KENNEDY AND ALEC TYSON
MARCH 1, 2024
Republican leaders have staked out different positions on climate and 
energy issues. Some, including former President Donald Trump, have 
called climate change a “hoax” and downplayed the link between human 
activity and a warming planet. Others, including some congressional 
Republicans, have proposed policies to address climate change, such as 
supporting more nuclear power and the development of carbon capture 
technology.

So what do Americans who identify as Republicans or lean toward the GOP 
think about climate and energy issues? Here are six facts about their 
views, drawn from Pew Research Center surveys
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=452200
*1 Few Republicans see climate change as a top priority for the 
country.* Just 12% of Republicans and Republican leaners say dealing 
with climate change should be a top priority for the president and 
Congress, according to a January 2024 survey. For Republicans, dealing 
with climate change ranks last among the 20 issues included in the survey.

A dot plot showing that Republicans rank climate change at the bottom of 
their priorities for the president and Congress in 2024.
Consistent with this view, Republicans express limited concern about how 
climate change may impact the United States. In a spring 2022 survey, 
only 23% saw climate change as a major threat to the country’s well-being.

By contrast, 59% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say 
climate change should be a top priority for the president and Congress. 
An even larger majority (78%) views it as a major threat to the U.S.

Partisan differences over climate change tend to be most pronounced when 
it comes to the perceived importance of the issue. There’s a bit more 
common ground when it comes to some specific policy proposals...
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*2 Despite expressing little concern about the issue generally, 
Republicans support some proposals to address climate change.* As part 
of efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, majorities of 
Republicans support requiring oil and gas companies to seal methane gas 
leaks from oil wells (77%) and favor providing a tax credit to 
businesses to develop carbon capture technologies (67%), according to a 
spring 2023 survey.

A dot plot that shows a majority of Republicans favor providing a tax 
credit to businesses for developing carbon capture technology.
More broadly, 54% of Republicans say they strongly or somewhat support 
the U.S. participating in international efforts to help reduce the 
effects of global climate change...
*3 Republicans support expanding fossil fuel and renewable energy 
sources.* Burning fossil fuels for energy is the source of most U.S. 
greenhouse gas emissions. Climate scientists have urged countries to 
rapidly reduce their reliance on fossil fuel energy while transitioning 
to renewable sources to help limit the rise in Earth’s temperature.

Among Republicans, large shares back increasing the production of fossil 
fuel sources: 73% favor more offshore oil and gas drilling and 68% favor 
more hydraulic fracturing.
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=452203
A diverging bar chart showing that Republicans favor more offshore oil 
and gas drilling – and more solar power.
At the same time, comparable shares of Republicans support renewable 
energy production, including more solar power farms (70%) and more wind 
power (60%). In addition, two-thirds said they favor building more 
nuclear power plants, according to a June 2023 survey...
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*4 Republicans are concerned about a transition to renewable energy in 
the U.S. *One of the Biden administration’s top priorities is to shift 
the U.S. toward more renewable energy, with a goal of reaching net-zero 
emissions by 2050. Republicans express broad concern about such a shift: 
87% say a transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy 
sources would be very or somewhat likely to lead to unexpected problems 
for the country.

A bar chart showing that two-thirds of Republicans say a potential 
energy transition would increase prices for everyday goods.
Specifically, Republicans worry that a renewable energy transition would 
increase prices and hurt the reliability of the electrical grid.
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=452205
About two-thirds (66%) say prices for everyday goods would get worse if 
the U.S. greatly reduced fossil fuel energy production while increasing 
production from renewable sources. About the same share (65%) say this 
transition would increase home heating and cooling costs. And 59% expect 
the reliability of the electrical grid would get worse in a major shift 
toward renewable energy...
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*5 There are considerable age differences within the GOP in views of 
fossil fuels. *Younger Republicans stand out from their older GOP 
counterparts on some climate and energy issues. For instance, a large 
majority of Republicans ages 18 to 29 (79%) say human activity, such as 
the burning of fossil fuels, contributes at least some to climate change 
– including 35% who think human activity contributes a great deal. A 
much smaller share of Republicans ages 50 and older (47%) say human 
activity contributes a great deal or some to climate change...
https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=452206
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*6 Relatively small shares of Republicans say climate change and extreme 
weather are having a significant impact on their own communities. *A 
minority of Republicans (36%) say climate change is affecting their own 
community a great deal or some, according to a March 2023 survey. By 
contrast, 85% of Democrats believe it is affecting their local community 
at least some.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/01/how-republicans-view-climate-change-and-energy-issues/sr_24-03-01_republicans-climate_6/
Perceptions of extreme weather differ by party as well. Republicans are 
less likely than Democrats to report that their local community has 
experienced at least one of five forms of extreme weather – including 
droughts, intense storms and wildfires – in the last year (58% vs. 79%). 
These partisan differences hold even when looking at Republicans and 
Democrats who live in the same region...
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For example, 76% of Republicans who say their community has experienced 
long periods of unusually hot weather believe climate change has 
contributed at least a little – including 34% who say it has contributed 
a lot.

Overwhelming shares of Democrats who report experiencing extreme weather 
draw a connection to climate change, with most saying climate change 
contributed a lot to these events, rather than just a little..
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/01/how-republicans-view-climate-change-and-energy-issues/

/[ Nate has a keen insight into our predicament. List of requirements 
for the libraries of healing - video]/
*7 Key Interventions for the Future | Frankly #55*
Nate Hagens
Mar 1, 2024
Recorded February 26 2024
In this Frankly, Nate shares insights on his personal/organizational 
priorities as a lead up to outlining 7 global interventions that he sees 
as being most impactful in preparing for a resource constrained future. 
As global stability deteriorates and the various macro-crises converge, 
how we invest our time and resources now can have a big impact for the 
various scenarios coming our way.  Can we as individuals and communities 
place health and wellness at the forefront of our responses - which 
would in turn leverage many other higher impact initiatives? What would 
healthy humans surrounded by community and a shared purpose, informed by 
the ecological systems synthesis be able to accomplish?
https://youtu.be/Mk84BZANyWk?si=fnbi2Az5OkSFY6Ar&t=660

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/[  Beckwith describes parts of a study ]/
*Human Health and Resilience to the Onslaught of Abrupt Climate System 
Disruption*
Paul Beckwith
   Feb 28, 2024
I chat about the recent report by the WMO (World Meteorological 
Organization) titled: “2023 STATE OF
CLIMATE SERVICES — HEALTH”: https://reliefweb.int/attachments/207...

Key messages In this report that I discuss in my video include most of 
the following:
“The world is warming at a faster rate than at any point in recorded 
history. Climate change undermines health determinants and increases 
pressures on health systems, thereby threatening to reverse decades of 
progress to promote human health and well-being, particularly in the 
most vulnerable communities. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change (IPCC) concludes, with very high confidence, that future health 
risks of injury, disease and death will increase due to more intense and 
frequent temperature extremes, cyclones, storms, floods, droughts and 
wildfires. It is anticipated that over 50% of the excess mortality 
resulting from climate change by the year 2050 will occur in Africa.

Health protection is a priority in almost all countries and requires 
high-quality information to better inform decision-making. The majority 
of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)and National Adaptation 
Plans (NAPs) prioritize the health sector. To systematically and 
effectively address the challenges presented by climate variability and 
change, the health sector needs to ensure that climate information and 
services inform national assessments and policies.

Climate information and services are fundamental for better 
understanding how and when health systems and population health can be 
impacted by climate extremes and a changing climate, and for managing 
climate-related risks. Tailored climate products and services can 
enhance the evidence and information available to health sector partners 
to detect, monitor, predict and manage climate-related health risks. 
Examples of where health sector partners are successfully using climate 
information and services are illustrated in the Case studies.

There is huge potential for enhancing the benefits of climate science 
and climate services for health. Despite examples of success, data shows 
that the health sector is underutilizing available climate knowledge and 
tools. At the same time, climate services need to be further enhanced to 
fully satisfy the health sector requirements. While 74% of National 
Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) provide climate data to 
health actors, the uptake into mainstreamed health decision tools is 
limited, with just 23% of Ministries of Health having a health 
surveillance system that utilizes
meteorological information to monitor climate-sensitive health risks. 
Data from WMO shows that only 31% of NMHSs provide climate services at a 
“full” or “advanced” level of capacity, where co-production and 
tailoring most often happen. This reflects a significant capacity gap to 
be filled in order to increase the role that NMHSs can play in 
supporting the health sector.

Extreme heat causes the greatest mortality of all extreme weather, yet 
heat warning services are provided to health decision makers in only 
half of the affected countries. Extreme heat services are expected to 
rapidly increase by 2027 under the United Nations Early Warnings for All 
initiative. The impacts of extreme heat and heatwaves are 
underestimated, as heat-related mortality could be 30 times higher than 
current estimates. Between 2000 and 2019, estimated deaths due to heat 
were approximately 489 000 per year, with a particularly high burden in 
Asia (45%) and Europe (36%).5
Every year poor air quality is responsible for millions of premature 
deaths and is the fourth biggest killer by health risk factor. Concerns 
relating to air quality, climate change and health are interlinked. 
Climate mitigation action leading to reducing air pollution can save 
lives. Despite this, only 2% of climate finance commitments made by 
international
development funders in developing and emerging countries is explicitly 
aimed at tackling air pollution (in 2015–2021).

There is insufficient investment to improve the capabilities of the 
health sector and related climate services to deploy research and 
integrated systems for effective climate adaptation and mitigation 
related decision-making. This leaves the health sector ill-prepared to 
safeguard the most vulnerable. Currently, just 0.2% of total bilateral 
and multilateral adaptation finance supports projects that identify 
health as the primary focus. There is insufficient investment for 
developing human resource and operational capacities and the systems 
needed to provide decision support for local adaptation and mitigation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQkB3-p4XlY

/[The news archive - why media uses "climate change" more than the 
science preferred "global warming" ]/
/*March 3, 2003 */
March 3, 2003: The Guardian reports on GOP operative Frank Luntz's 
infamous memo urging Republicans to place renewed emphasis on alleged 
"uncertainties" in climate science, to dull public support for efforts 
to stem carbon pollution.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

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