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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 3, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[Follow the food]<br>
<b>Global Warming Poses Threat to Food Chains – “Impact Could Be
Severe”</b><br>
Rising temperatures could reduce the efficiency of food chains and
threaten the survival of larger animals, new research shows.<br>
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Scientists measured the transfer of energy from single-celled algae
(phytoplankton) to small animals that eat them (zooplankton).<br>
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The study — by the University of Exeter and Queen Mary University of
London, and published in the journal Nature — found that 4°C of
warming reduced energy transfer in the plankton food webs by up to
56%.<br>
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Warmer conditions increase the metabolic cost of growth, leading to
less efficient energy flow through the food chain and ultimately to
a reduction in overall biomass.<br>
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“These findings shine a light on an under-appreciated consequence of
global warming,” said Professor Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, of the
Environment and Sustainability Institute on Exeter’s Penryn Campus
in Cornwall.<br>
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“Phytoplankton and zooplankton are the foundation of food webs that
support freshwater and marine ecosystems that humans depend on.<br>
<br>
“Our study is the first direct evidence that the cost of growth
increases in higher temperatures, limiting the transfer of energy up
a food chain.”<br>
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Professor Mark Trimmer, of Queen Mary University of London, said:
“If the effects we find in this experiment are evident in natural
ecosystems, the consequences could be profound.<br>
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“The impact on larger animals at the top of food chains — which
depend on energy passed up from lower down the food chain — could be
severe. More research is needed.”<br>
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“In general, about 10% of energy produced on one level of a food web
makes it up to the next level,” said Dr. Diego Barneche, of the
Australian Institute of Marine Science and the Oceans Institute at
the University of Western Australia.<br>
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“This happens because organisms expend a lot of energy on a variety
of functions over a lifetime, and only a small fraction of the
energy they consume is retained in biomass that ends up being eaten
by predators.<br>
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“Warmer temperatures can cause metabolic rates to accelerate faster
than growth rates, which reduces the energy available to predators
in the next level up the food web.”<br>
<br>
The study measured nitrogen transfer efficiency (a proxy for overall
energy transfer) in freshwater plankton that had been exposed to a
seven-year-long outdoor warming experiment in the UK.<br>
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Reference: “Warming impairs trophic transfer efficiency in a
long-term field experiment” by Diego R. Barneche, Chris J. Hulatt,
Matteo Dossena, Daniel Padfield, Guy Woodward, Mark Trimmer and
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, 1 March 2021, Nature.<br>
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03352-2<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scitechdaily.com/global-warming-poses-threat-to-food-chains-impact-could-be-severe/">https://scitechdaily.com/global-warming-poses-threat-to-food-chains-impact-could-be-severe/</a><br>
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[Brookings - following the money]<br>
<b>Blueprints to advance climate change mitigation and resilience</b><br>
Samantha Gross and Adie Tomer -- March 1, 2021<br>
Editor's Note: This brief introduces the Climate and Resilience
section of the Brookings Blueprints for American Renewal &
Prosperity project. -- online event discussing climate and
resilience. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/E9UBeZ-Ai_I">https://youtu.be/E9UBeZ-Ai_I</a><br>
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<b>INTRODUCTION</b><br>
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many existing problems in the
American economy and created new ones. Now, as a new presidential
administration and Congress take office amid compounding historic
challenges, Brookings’s Blueprints for American Renewal &
Prosperity provides a series of innovative, implementable federal
policy proposals. In the essays discussing climate and resilience,
Brookings scholars lay out policies that respond to the climate
crisis both domestically and abroad.<br>
<b>BACKGROUND</b><br>
Climate change is one of those rare issues that touches every aspect
of our economic, social, and physical security. The United States
continues to be one of the planet’s highest-emitting countries,
reflecting high fossil fuel use, inefficient land development, and
unsustainable agriculture practices. Extreme weather events from
wildfires in the west to hurricanes in the east grow in frequency
each year, while more gradual challenges such as natural ecosystem
loss, urban heat islands, and persistent droughts are only
intensifying. The net effect is a population facing deep financial
risks, unchecked environmental injustice, and profound uncertainty
about how to manage future growth.<br>
<br>
However, the climate crisis also offers opportunities for a new
growth model. Transitioning to a net-zero-emission economy by 2050—a
stated goal of President Joe Biden and many global peers—will
require new economic architecture to support it, including
infrastructure, education, financial instruments, and regulation.
New career opportunities will emerge, new financial instruments will
be introduced, and new products and services will be invented. If
managed successfully, our transition to a clean economy can also
build a more just, inclusive, and entrepreneurial society.<br>
<br>
The United States cannot respond to this crisis alone. Climate
change is the ultimate global issue, with emissions anywhere
affecting the climate everywhere. The United States has a moral
responsibility to work alongside our global peers, and the planet
will benefit if American innovators can design new solutions for
emerging problems. Meanwhile, our people will benefit from using
international products and services that can reduce our destructive
footprint at home. Global engagement also has the benefit of
promoting democracy abroad, since those norms are still the most
effective way to broker compromise and hold one another accountable.
The planet needs the United States to be part of productive climate
action.<br>
<br>
Brookings’s climate and resilience Blueprints focus on these
fundamental structural and international issues. They draw from
expertise throughout the Institution to suggest federal policies to
help the United States achieve its emission reduction goals,
strengthen our resilience to the inevitable changes in climate that
will occur, and reinvigorate our international efforts to encourage
greater climate ambition and learn from our global partners.<br>
<br>
<b>REDUCING FEDERAL CLIMATE RISK</b><br>
The federal government is far more than the country’s
regulator-in-chief. Together, its various agencies and departments
function as one of the country’s largest land managers, building
owners, and financial investors. The federal government is also a
giant insurance company, protecting everything from its military
bases to our private homes. Solving the climate crisis can start by
better managing the federal government’s own exposure to
climate-related risks.<br>
<br>
To advance resilient outcomes within the federal government, Joseph
W. Kane, Jenny Schuetz, Shalini Vajjhala, and Adie Tomer suggest we
first focus on the built environment and our need to address
unsustainable land use systems. They recommend establishing a
Climate Planning Unit within the White House Office of Management
and Budget to focus on reducing the fiscal impacts of climate
change. Such an office could take a whole-of-government view to
climate risk mitigation, focusing on both quick wins and
opportunities for long-term structural change—doing right by the
environment, the people, and the federal budget in the process. The
office would be focused on cost savings and partially funded through
recovered costs. Its work would also focus on lower-income
households and communities of color, which are impacted most by
climate change and often overlooked in existing programs.<br>
<br>
<b>PREPARING STUDENTS AND WORKERS</b><br>
For too long, the United States has spent too much time debating the
existence of climate change and spent too little time educating
students about our changing environment and preparing workers for
the emerging jobs that will be central to humanity’s response. The
federal government can play a central role in making up for lost
ground.<br>
<br>
Christina Kwauk and Joseph W. Kane propose a new kind of student and
worker agenda to meet our climate goals. Achieving a net-zero
economy is not just a technical challenge requiring technical
solutions, but also a societal problem that requires a population
educated to address it. However, such education and skills are
lacking today, especially among underrepresented and marginalized
people. And the federal departments most involved in education and
workforce training—the departments of Education and Labor—do not
have programs to provide the knowledge and skills needed in our
changing economy.<br>
<br>
The authors recommend empowering the United States Global Change
Research Program—which is already devoted to providing federal
leadership and interagency coordination on climate—to take on an
education role as well. Programs would provide green learning across
the whole of society, from K-12 through higher education, career and
technical education, and teacher training.<br>
<br>
<b>INCENTIVIZING RESILIENT BUSINESS</b><br>
Two more papers focus on funding the green transition in light of
the deep but uneven economic recession the country faces as a result
of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br>
<br>
Sanjay Patnaik, Siddhi Doshi, and Kelly Kennedy focus on the
similarities between the COVID-19 crisis and climate change, noting
that both are economy-wide risk management challenges. As the
federal government mounts a huge spending push to overcome the
pandemic’s economic impacts, the authors argue that we should not
miss the opportunity to make the economy more climate resilient in
the process. Their plan suggests that larger businesses receiving
aid should be required to disclose their climate-related risks. Such
businesses would also be subject to discounted interest rates on the
aid if they use an internal carbon price in their decisionmaking.
Additionally, aid for the automobile and airline sectors should be
predicated on better environmental performance, and no more aid
should be distributed to the fossil fuel industry.<br>
<br>
Since the forced shutdowns in March 2020, small businesses have felt
some of the most acute economic pain. This has had outsized impacts
on American entrepreneurs and the nearly 50% of the U.S. labor force
that works in small business establishments. Yet even before
COVID-19, small businesses faced headwinds in making low-carbon
investments, especially due to a lack of access to financial
capital. If the U.S. marketplace does not figure out how to get
small businesses back on their feet and help them prepare for a
greener economy, then the net effect could be hollowed-out local
economies, increased market power for large firms, and worsened
income equality. Addisu Lashitew’s piece recommends the creation of
a $30 billion Small Business Opportunity Fund to fund grants, loans,
and bonds for green investments in small businesses. The loan and
bond components of the Fund could be channeled through intermediary
financial institutions, building on the experiences of the CARES
Act’s Paycheck Protection Program and Main Street Lending Program.<br>
<br>
<b>REENGAGING THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY</b><br>
The Trump administration’s distaste for multilateralism represented
the reversal of roughly a century of American global leadership.
Climate policy was not spared, embodied by President Donald Trump’s
departure from the Paris Agreement. Now, with the Biden
administration reversing course, the United States must find a way
to rebuild trust on the world stage as we reengage the global
community during a crucial year for the climate.<br>
<br>
In their piece, Nathan Hultman and Samantha Gross discuss steps the
United States can take to return to credible leadership on climate.
All countries in the Paris Agreement are obliged to submit new
emissions reduction pledges in advance of a key global meeting in
November. The United States must make an ambitious but achievable
pledge and assist other countries in doing the same. Subnational
actors have led U.S. efforts over the last four years, and they can
share their skills and ambition with their counterparts abroad.
Finally, the United States can lead through its outsized role in the
global financial sector, strengthening its climate change reporting
rules and supporting efforts to finance emissions reduction and
climate adaptation projects in the developing world.<br>
<br>
<b>CONCLUSION</b><br>
Each of these recommendations addresses portions of the
government-wide effort that will be needed to achieve a
zero-emissions economy by midcentury. But all of them—or other
essential ideas such as energy grid modernization, green
infrastructure standards, and improved vehicle fuel efficiency—will
confront a polarized political climate. Even though a clear majority
of Americans now recognize the scientific validity of climate change
and the need to collectively respond, federal progress has lagged
behind our global peers. Overcoming political friction demands
finding common interests such as a robust small business sector and
growth in good-paying jobs, and then ensuring our climate-focused
policies deliver on those shared goals. The path is difficult, but
the stakes couldn’t be higher.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/blueprints-to-advance-climate-change-mitigation-and-resilience/">https://www.brookings.edu/research/blueprints-to-advance-climate-change-mitigation-and-resilience/</a><br>
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["This is an investment risk issue" -- 1 hour YouTube video "Climate
change touches everything"]<br>
<b>A conversation about climate change mitigation and resilience</b><br>
Mar 2, 2021<br>
Brookings Institution<br>
On Tuesday, March 2, Brookings hosted the final event in the
Blueprints series, focused on addressing climate change mitigation
and resilience. A panel of scholars discussed ideas from Blueprints
briefs related to preparing students and workers for emerging job
fields, incentivizing resilient businesses, reducing federal climate
risk, and managing the federal government’s own exposure to
climate-related risks. Underpinning all of these related topics is
the imperative to reengage and lead the global community.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9UBeZ-Ai_I&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9UBeZ-Ai_I&feature=emb_logo</a><br>
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[political barrier]<br>
<b>Rep. Tim Ryan: “Denial Makes it Difficult to Work with the GOP” |
Amanpour and Company</b><br>
Mar 2, 2021<br>
Amanpour and Company<br>
A $1.9 trillion stimulus package to help those hit hardest by the
pandemic has passed the House of Representatives. President Biden
has stated it is his top priority to see the bill enacted into law.
Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan voted for the plan and speaks with
Michel Martin about his role in investigating the Capitol riot and
the challenges ahead in getting the COVID relief bill through the
Senate.<br>
Originally aired on March 2, 2021.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lcgMaqmPtU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lcgMaqmPtU</a><br>
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[video on the calculations- EV vs Gasoline]<br>
<b>The Dirty Truth about Combustion Engine Vehicles | An 'Open
Source' Animation</b><br>
Mar 2, 2021<br>
Fully Charged Show<br>
Robert was delighted to be asked to do the voiceover for this
incredible animation by Mark Linthicum looking at the truth behind
which pollutes more - combustion engine vehicles or electric
vehicles? Spoiler alert: It's not EVs!<br>
<br>
We are delighted to share this with you as it is another tool to
expose the truth behind vehicle pollution, as well as asking what we
can all do to help combat this.<br>
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This is an open source project which means anyone can post this but
please contact Mark via us at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:communications@fullycharged.show">communications@fullycharged.show</a> to
get permission first. Let's get this shared far and wide!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-LnUYEXuM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-LnUYEXuM</a><br>
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[fundamentals of light -- lessons from 2014]<br>
<b>How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire</b><br>
TED-Ed - Jul 17, 2014<br>
You've probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth. But
how exactly is it doing it? Lieven Scheire uses a rainbow, a light
bulb and a bit of quantum physics to describe the science behind
global warming. <br>
Lesson by Lieven Scheire, animation by STK Films.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJOO3xAjTk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJOO3xAjTk</a><br>
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[If you’re a journalist, or curious]<br>
<b>The Basics: Climate Science 101</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/resources-stories/the-basics-climate-science-101">https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/resources-stories/the-basics-climate-science-101</a><br>
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<p>[Leaving Texas, Vogue opinion]<br>
<b>We Survived the Disaster in Texas, But Climate Change Makes Me
Wonder If I Can Live Here Anymore</b><br>
BY CAMERON DEZEN HAMMON<br>
March 2, 2021<br>
A few days before the power, and then the water, went out in our
Houston town house during what’s been called a thousand-year
winter storm, I was having a glass of wine with my neighbor in her
garden. “Next time you want to evacuate, evacuate here,” she said,
slightly joking. Laura gestured toward her newly renovated
kitchen, on the other side of double glass doors. Laura has many
pets, and a generator, and she’s a native Texan. She never
evacuates. I moved to Texas from Brooklyn almost 19 years ago, and
despite my tenure, I never stay. Hurricane season in Texas is
blistering, and the inevitability of losing power is not something
I’m willing to risk. I made a mental note to text Laura in June
when storm season starts and walked the half block home in the
damp cold.<br>
<br>
The weather went from cold to bone-chilling to record-breaking in
days, bottoming out in the teens, and ERCOT, Texas’s mysterious,
illuminati-like nonprofit power-regulation organization, forced
blackouts throughout the state in a bid to avoid irreparably
crashing the grid. We woke up to cars, mailboxes, and patio
furniture—because February in Texas is ideal patio weather—covered
in sparkling snow. My dog ran into our backyard and then trotted
quickly back inside, ice crystals already forming on her white
fur.<br>
<br>
Schools shut down, so the many children who live on our block,
from kindergarteners to teenagers, poured out of their homes,
dragging boogie boards and pool floats to use as makeshift sleds.
I could hear their laughter from my kitchen. My own teenage
daughter stayed in her room, unused to the cold weather, until I
coaxed her out for a walk around the block. We inhaled the icy air
and felt alive in a way we perhaps haven’t since quarantine began
almost a year ago. It’s snowed in Texas before, but as long as
I’ve lived here, it’s never been more than a dusting. It was cold,
but the sun was shining, and the world looked transformed, new.
Hopeful. A few hours later the power went out, and the wonderland
went dark.<br>
<br>
My tendency to flee every time a weather crisis occurs is a joke
among my friends and neighbors. I play along; I’m not ashamed.
When deadly weather is on the forecast, I don’t mind dragging my
family to Dallas or College Station, only for the hurricane or
tropical storm to make a last-minute turn and miss us entirely.
But this time, evacuating wasn’t an option. The roads were iced
over throughout the entire state of Texas. There was nowhere to
go. For the first time since moving here, I had to ride it out.<br>
<br>
Everyone who has lived in Houston for any amount of time knows
their weather crisis personality. Do you hunker down when the
forecast turns menacing—following the mayor’s and county judge’s
orders to stock up on staples like water, batteries, and
nonperishable food, maybe even breaking out the Cointreau because
no one ever said you can’t prepare and have a margarita at the
same time. Or do you volunteer? Are you one of those people who
run toward catastrophe, filling your car with those staples and
hand delivering them to communities in need? Or do you
evacuate—which is arguably an option only for the most privileged
among us? I have a credit card that isn’t maxed out. I’ve put many
emergency Airbnbs and hotel rooms on credit cards during Texas
weather events. I have debt, but it’s worth it to me. And I’ve
also had the good fortune to have hospitable friends and family
within driving distance. My 70-something aunt and uncle took in my
family this summer when Hurricane Laura had Houston in its
crosshairs, despite the pandemic. We spent almost a week piled
into their guest room trying to keep six feet of distance from
them, and trying to keep our high-strung rescue dog away from
their expensive Maine Coon cat.<br>
<br>
But we don’t have any such experience with cold-weather
catastrophes. Texas doesn’t have those. My 14-year-old daughter is
not happy when I make her evacuate for a hurricane, but when I
tell her to wear her coat in the house because we’ve lost power
and the dishwater in the sink is starting to freeze, she blinks at
me. Our climate catastrophe personas don’t function in this new
kind of crisis. I was too scared to cry, so I drank large glasses
of wine. When the water pressure bottomed out and then failed, and
the toilets stopped filling, we braved the roads and made it to
the only grocery store in our area that still had bottled water. A
handmade sign pasted above the already overpriced alkalized water
instructed customers to limit themselves to two bottles of water
each. Just two. So, I grabbed armfuls of weird vitamin water and
mini cans of Sprite. When I got into the car with my packages, my
husband, an economics teacher, remarked, “At least they aren’t
price gouging,” and shrugged his shoulders. You’ve got to count
the small victories. Later that day, I sent an Instagram message
to a friend in Austin who lost water after we did, and I was happy
I could help her with the wisdom our few hours of lead time
afforded me. I told her to collect buckets of snow to melt to use
to flush the toilets. She replied, “That sentence is below the
Cameron I know.”<br>
<br>
Ultimately, we were lucky. Our power was only out for seven hours,
though many friends and family members, including my
parents-in-law, also in their 70s, were shut down on and off for
four days. Our family is fortunate to not need electricity to
power lifesaving medical devices, like 75-year-old Vietnam veteran
Carrol Anderson, who died in his pickup truck searching for his
last oxygen tank after the power went out. Dozens in Texas lost
their lives, including 11-year-old Cristian Pavon, who, according
to the Houston Chronicle, died in his bed in a house without heat,
hours after playing in the snow for the first time. Though we went
five days without potable water, we were able to fill a water jug
we bought in 2008 before Hurricane Ike from the trickle in the
sink to boil and cool enough water to brush our teeth with, cook
with, and drink.<br>
<br>
As a transplanted New Yorker, Houston has been good to me. It’s
the most diverse city in America, and it’s affordable, if you
don’t count what one local writer called the trauma tax. I left
New York after 9/11, not because of any loss of love, but because
I thought it might be easier to live in Houston, and in many ways
it has been. But like so many in regions where the effects of
climate change are becoming frightening faster than we imagined,
we’re left wondering if the city’s unofficial marketing
slogan—Houston. It’s Worth It.—holds up. Though climate change is
coming for us all, it might be time for our family to think about
finding somewhere to live where its effects are less immediate,
less terrifying. My neighbor and I have promised to schedule our
next glass of wine once we’ve both come down from the anxiety of
last week. It might take longer than we think.<br>
<br>
Cameron Dezen Hammon is the author of This Is My Body: A Memoir of
Religious and Romantic Obsession, winner of the 2019 Nonfiction
Discovery Prize from the Writers’ League of Texas.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vogue.com/article/texas-storm-climate-change-personal-essay">https://www.vogue.com/article/texas-storm-climate-change-personal-essay</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive - about the
disinformation horrors of Frank Luntz]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
March 3, 2003 </b></font><br>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><b>Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy</b><br>
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<p>The US Republican party is changing tactics on the
environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global
warming, after a confidential party memo warned that it is the
domestic issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.<br>
<br>
The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz,
concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications
battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in
the view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers
of greenhouse gases.<br>
<br>
"The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet
closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge
the science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the
Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning
organisation.<br>
<br>
"Voters believe that there is no consensus about global
warming within the scientific community. Should the public
come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their
views about global warming will change accordingly.<br>
<br>
"Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of
scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate."<br>
<br>
The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of
"climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe
its policies as "conservationist" instead of
"environmentalist", because "most people" think
environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge in "some pretty
bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".<br>
<br>
Words such as "common sense" should be used, with pro-business
arguments avoided wherever possible.<br>
<br>
The environment, the memo says, "is probably the single issue
on which Republicans in general - and President Bush in
particular - are most vulnerable".<br>
<br>
A Republican source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
party strategists agreed with Mr Luntz's conclusion that "many
Americans believe Republicans do not care about the
environment".<br>
<br>
The popular image is that they are "in the pockets of
corporate fat cats who rub their hands together and chuckle
manically [sic] as they plot to pollute America for fun and
profit", Mr Luntz adds.<br>
<br>
The phrase "global warming" appeared frequently in President
Bush's speeches in 2001, but decreased to almost nothing
during 2002, when the memo was produced.<br>
<br>
Environmentalists have accused the party and oil companies of
helping to promulgate the view that serious doubt remains
about the effects of global warming.<br>
<br>
Last week, a panel of experts appointed at the Bush
administration's request to analyse the president's climate
change strategy found that it lacked "vision, executable
goals, clear timetables and criteria for measuring progress".<br>
<br>
"Rather than focusing on the things we don't know, it's almost
as if parts of the plan were written by people who are totally
unfamiliar with where ecosystems science is coming from,"
panel member William Schlesinger told the Guardian.<br>
<br>
Mr Luntz urges Republicans to "emphasise the importance of
'acting only with all the facts in hand'", in line with the
White House position that mandatory restrictions on emissions,
as required by the Kyoto protocol, should not be countenanced
until further research is undertaken.<br>
<br>
The memo singles out as a major strategic failure the incoming
Bush administration's response to Bill Clinton's last-minute
executive order reducing the permitted level of arsenic in
drinking water from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per
billion.<br>
<br>
The new administration put the plan on hold, prompting "the
biggest public relations misfire of President Bush's first
year in office", Mr Luntz writes. The perception was that Mr
Bush "was actively putting in more arsenic in the water".<br>
<br>
"A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more
emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth," Mr
Luntz notes in the memo.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange</a></p>
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<b>FRONTLINE "Hot Politics" at pbs.org/frontline/</b><br>
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