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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 12, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[Political differences]<br>
<b>Republicans and Democrats differ in why they support renewable
energy</b><br>
Anthony Leiserowitz<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111448"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111448</a><br>
Highlights<br>
<blockquote>Republicans and Democrats support renewable energy
policy, but for different reasons.<br>
Republicans' (more than Democrats') support is driven by perceived
economic benefits.<br>
Democrats' (more than Republicans') support is driven by global
warming concerns.<br>
</blockquote>
These patterns emerge from both self-reported priorities and from
predictive models.<br>
<br>
<b>Abstract:</b><br>
<blockquote>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.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421520302019?dgcid=author"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421520302019?dgcid=author</a><br>
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[Holy See says!]<br>
<b>Pope Francis says coronavirus could be 'nature's response' to
climate change</b><br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/pope-says-coronavirus-could-be-a-reaction-to-climate-change/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/pope-says-coronavirus-could-be-a-reaction-to-climate-change/</a><br>
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</b>[Source material]<b><br>
</b><b>Pope Francis says pandemic can be a 'place of conversion'</b><br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/17845/pope-francis-says-pandemic-can-be-a-place-of-conversion"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/2/17845/pope-francis-says-pandemic-can-be-a-place-of-conversion</a>-<br>
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[NYTimes NONFICTION]<br>
<b>Facing the Climate Change Crisis, Three Books Offer Some
Ambitious Proposals</b><br>
- - -<br>
<b> </b><b>THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE</b><br>
Surviving the Crisis<br>
By Christina Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac<br>
<blockquote>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.<br>
</blockquote>
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<b>THE STORY OF MORE</b><br>
How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here<br>
By Hope Jahren<br>
<blockquote>"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."<br>
</blockquote>
- - <br>
<b>THE 100% SOLUTION</b><br>
A Plan for Solving Climate Change<br>
By Solomon Goldstein-Rose<br>
<blockquote>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.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/books/review/story-of-more-hope-jahren-future-we-choose.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/books/review/story-of-more-hope-jahren-future-we-choose.html</a><br>
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[obit]<br>
<b>S. Fred Singer, a Leading Climate Change Contrarian, Dies at 95</b><br>
Derided as a "Merchant of Doubt," he spent decades trying to refute
the evidence of global warming and other environmental risks.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...<br>
more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/climate/s-fred-singer-dead.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/climate/s-fred-singer-dead.html</a><br>
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[fame and infamy]<br>
<b>Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the
Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming</b><br>
Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway<br>
Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Jun 3, 2010 - Science <br>
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...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fpMh3nh3JI0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://books.google.com/books?id=fpMh3nh3JI0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 12, 2013 </b></font><br>
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. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/12/1859541/yes-climate-change-is-worsening-us-drought-noaa-report-needlessly-confuses-the-issue/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/12/1859541/yes-climate-change-is-worsening-us-drought-noaa-report-needlessly-confuses-the-issue/</a><br>
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