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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 5, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ go figure -- easy action ] </i><br>
<b>Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking
Storm Aid.</b><br>
Senior Republican politicians in the state have opposed federal
action against global warming, which is making storms like Hurricane
Ian more destructive.<br>
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“To not admit that climate change is real and we need to address it
bodes nothing but a harm for the future for Florida and the nation,”
said Charlie Crist, a former Republican Florida governor who won a
House seat as a Democrat, and is now challenging Mr. DeSantis’s
re-election...<br>
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But Ms. Luna pushed back hard on the need to address climate change
by cutting fossil fuel emissions. She called it “completely bonkers”
that the United States would harm its own economy “while we send
manufacturing to a country that is one of the top polluters of the
world,” referring to China.<br>
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Mr. Crist sounded almost sympathetic as he discussed the bind that
Florida Republicans find themselves in — accepting donations from
the oil and gas industry, unwilling to raise the issue of climate
change with their most loyal voters, while surveying the damage it
is doing to their state.<br>
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The oil and gas industry is not a major source of campaign cash for
politicians in Florida, where offshore drilling is prohibited. Mr.
Rubio has received $223,239 from the oil and gas industry since
2017, which puts the industry at 15th on his donor list, federal
records show. Mr. Scott has received $236,483 from oil and gas, his
14th most generous industry.<br>
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But the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Mr. Scott
leads, has received $3.2 million in oil and gas donations this
campaign cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics,
eclipsed only by real estate, Wall Street and retirees. By contrast,
the fossil fuel business isn’t among the top 20 industries that have
given this cycle to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...<br>
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On Friday, Mr. Rubio and Mr. Scott wrote to their Senate colleagues,
asking them to support a package of disaster aid. Like Mr. DeSantis,
Mr. Rubio opposed a similar measure after Sandy struck the Northeast
in 2012. (Mr. Scott had not yet been elected to the Senate.)<br>
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Yoca Arditi-Rocha, executive director of the CLEO Institute, a
nonprofit group in Florida that promotes climate change education,
advocacy and resilience, said the state’s top elected officials need
to do much more than react after disaster strikes.<br>
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“Florida will continue to be on the front lines of more destructive
hurricanes fueled by a warming climate,” Ms. Arditi-Rocha said. “We
need Republican leaders to step up.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/climate/florida-republicans-climate-hurricane-ian.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/climate/florida-republicans-climate-hurricane-ian.html</a><br>
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<i>[ BBC reports from Pakistan -- video from vast flood areas ]</i><br>
<b>Pakistan floods: UN issues urgent appeal over 'public health
emergency' - BBC News</b><br>
Oct 4, 2022 The United Nations has issued an urgent appeal for
funds to help families in flood-hit Pakistan to cope with the
“public health emergency”. <br>
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More than 1700 people have died, including nearly 600 children, and
thousands more were injured as the floodwaters rose. <br>
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With the floods not expected to recede for many months,
life-threatening water borne diseases are on the rise.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFNjq09pF0c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFNjq09pF0c</a>
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<p><i>[ Bill Nye the Science Guy - lectures politicians - video 6
mins ]</i><br>
<b>Hear Bill Nye's message to conservative lawmakers</b><br>
Oct 1, 2022 Science educator Bill Nye has a message for
conservative lawmakers following the devastating aftermath of
Hurricane Ian.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-CbDetZNg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN-CbDetZNg</a></p>
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<i>[ The Beckisphere Report delivers regular summary of top climate
topics -- video ]</i><br>
<b>Celebrities see their water restricted, New York joins California
in gas car ban</b><br>
Oct 4, 2022 If you like the work I do, please consider joining the
Beckisphere Patreon at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/beckisphere">https://www.patreon.com/beckisphere</a> or buying
me a cup of coffee at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beckisphere">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/beckisphere</a>.
Remember to talk about the climate crisis every day and support your
local news organizations! <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Gtd6MS0uQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Gtd6MS0uQ</a><br>
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<i>[ wonderful visualizations in this geological history - 47 min
video ]</i><br>
<b>How Ancient Floods Have Shaped Our Landscape | Earthshocks:
Megaflood | Earth Stories</b><br>
Fundraiser<br>
148,792 views Apr 9, 2022 200 Miles east of Seattle, Washington
lies the Scablands, an unusual landscape full of intriguing layer
deposits, gorges, and vast open land that looks as though it has
ripples in it. For decades, scientists have wondered what as led to
the unique formation of this area. Some believe it was glacial
melting, and others believe it was river erosion, or a massive flood
millions of years ago. To understand what the truth is behind the
landscape, we take a look at the land through geology.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Km-NjcEvM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Km-NjcEvM</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - a famous outing of status quo stupidity ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 5, 2005</b></i></font> <br>
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman observes:<br>
<blockquote> "When it comes to energy policy, the G.O.P. has become
fossilized. That is, it’s fossil fuels, and only fossil fuels, all
the way...<br>
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"Part of the answer is surely that promotion of renewable energy
is linked in many people’s minds with attempts to limit climate
change — and climate denial has become a key part of conservative
identity. The truth is that climate impact isn’t the only cost of
burning fossil fuels, that fossil-fuel-associated pollutants like
particulates and ozone inflict huge, measurable damage and are
major reasons to support alternative energy. Furthermore,
renewables are getting close to being cost-competitive even in the
absence of special incentives (and don’t forget that oil and gas
have long been subsidized by the tax code.) But the association
with climate science evokes visceral hostility on the right.<br>
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"Beyond that, you need to follow the money. We used to say that
the G.O.P. was the party of Big Energy, but these days it would be
more accurate to say that it’s the party of Old Energy. In the
2014 election cycle the oil and gas industry gave 87 percent of
its political contributions to Republicans; for coal mining the
figure was 96, that’s right, 96 percent. Meanwhile, alternative
energy went 56 percent for Democrats.<br>
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"And Old Energy is engaged in a systematic effort to blacken the
image of renewable energy, one that closely resembles the way it
has supported 'experts' willing to help create a cloud of doubt
about climate science. An example: Earlier this year Newsweek
published an op-ed article purporting to show that the true cost
of wind power was much higher than it seems. But it turned out
that the article contained major factual errors, and its author
had failed to disclose that he was the Charles W. Koch professor
at Utah State, and a fellow of a Koch- and ExxonMobil-backed think
tank.<br>
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"It’s unlikely, I guess, that energy policy will play as big a
role as other issues, such as tax policy, in the 2016 election.
But to the extent it does, you need to know what’s really at
stake.<br>
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"While politicians on the right may talk about encouraging
innovation and promoting an energy revolution, they’re actually
defenders of the energy status quo, part of a movement trying to
block anything that might disrupt the reign of fossil fuels."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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