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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>January 2, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ NPR report - text, audio and transcript]</i><br>
<b>Republicans get a louder voice on climate change as they take
over the House</b><br>
December 30, 2022<br>
Heard on All Things Considered<br>
JEFF BRADY<br>
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.<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<b>Making a statement</b><br>
While House Republicans may have difficulty passing laws, their
majority comes with a big voice and they plan to use it.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
"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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
- -<br>
"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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
"We are already looking to the 2024 elections and making sure that
we elect environmental champions up and down the ballot," says
Sittenfeld.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1145083067/republicans-get-a-louder-voice-on-climate-change-as-they-take-over-the-house">https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1145083067/republicans-get-a-louder-voice-on-climate-change-as-they-take-over-the-house</a>
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<i>[ Psychology Today article ] </i><br>
<b>Transilience: A New Way to Think About Climate Change</b><br>
Going beyond resilience to look at how we rise to climate-driven
challenges.<br>
Posted January 1, 2023 <br>
<blockquote>KEY POINTS<br>
- - It is increasingly imperative that we better understand the
psychology of human action and inaction regarding climate change.<br>
- - Researchers have proposed a three-factor “Climate Change
Transilience Scale” grounded in persistence, adaptability, and
transformability.<br>
- - Further studies are needed to evaluate the relationships
between transilience, health, and behavior.<br>
</blockquote>
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Developing the Climate Change Transilience Scale<br>
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:<br>
<br>
<b>1. Persistence. </b>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.<br>
<br>
<b>2. Adaptability.</b> 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.<br>
<br>
<b>3. Transformability. </b>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.<br>
- -<br>
Future Directions for Transilience in Response to Climate Crisis<br>
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:<br>
<br>
“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.”<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychiatry-for-the-people/202301/transilience-a-new-way-to-think-about-climate-change">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychiatry-for-the-people/202301/transilience-a-new-way-to-think-about-climate-change</a><br>
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<i>[ Eliot makes predictions -- a trained expert in risk, math and
climate ]</i><br>
<b>My 2023 Predictions: The F&%kery Continues</b><br>
Climate Casino<br>
Dec 26, 2022 SANTA BARBARA<br>
Links for today's video: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatecasino.net">https://www.climatecasino.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9nmxlA5CQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9nmxlA5CQ</a><br>
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<i>[ Eliot Jacobson a bit of philosophizing -- freedom, falsehood,
Zen, ]</i><br>
<b>What is the Purpose of Being a Doomer?</b><br>
Climate Casino<br>
Jan 1, 2023 SANTA BARBARA<br>
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?"<br>
<br>
Here is a link to the full live broadcast:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/CQvEvoDg0dc">https://youtu.be/CQvEvoDg0dc</a><br>
<br>
And here is a link to my recent appearance on the YouTube channel
Soft White Underbelly:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nui67G-g2Q</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QoOtPxuz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3QoOtPxuz8</a><br>
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<i>[ "to be a doomer is to be an activist" -- it's not doom, it's
sadness ]</i><br>
<b>Doomer (Doomsday Theorist) interview-Eliot</b><br>
Soft White Underbelly<br>
Dec 30, 2022<br>
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Eliot, a doomer in
Santa Barbara, California.<br>
<br>
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<i>[ Australia predicts lower populations ]</i><br>
<b>BC News In-depth</b><br>
323,475 views Nov 15, 2022 #ABCNewsAustralia #ABCNewsIndepth<br>
The United Nations estimates that on November 15, the world will
have a population of 8 billion people.<br>
Subscribe: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5">https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5</a> Read more here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ab.co/3EbZl7R">https://ab.co/3EbZl7R</a><br>
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. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Watch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1">https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DXniZGkME">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DXniZGkME</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 2, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
Chris Mooney of Mother Jones explains to the willfully ignorant that
snow doesn't disprove climate change.<br>
<blockquote>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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.)<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/blizzards-dont-refute-global-warming">http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/blizzards-dont-refute-global-warming</a><br>
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