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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>January 3, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ shift in activist tactics ]</i><br>
<b>Extinction Rebellion announces move away from disruptive tactics</b><br>
Climate protest group says temporary shift will ‘prioritise
relationships over roadblocks’<br>
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent<br>
1 Jan 2023<br>
The climate protest group Extinction Rebellion is shifting tactics
from disruptions such as smashing windows and glueing themselves to
public places in 2023, it has announced.<br>
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A new year resolution to “prioritise attendance over arrest and
relationships over roadblocks”, was spelled out in a 1 January
statement titled “We quit”, which said “constantly evolving tactics
is a necessary approach”.<br>
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The group admitted the move would be controversial. Other
environmental protest groups, such as Just Stop Oil, have stepped up
direct actions, notably throwing paint at art masterpieces...- -<br>
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Meanwhile, dire warnings about global heating continue: 2022 was the
warmest on record in the UK, the Met Office has said, and the 10
warmest years on record have all occurred since 2003. The UN
secretary general, António Guterres, has warned: “We are headed for
economy-destroying levels of global heating.”<br>
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XR is calling for 100,000 people to “leave the locks, glue and paint
behind” and surround the Houses of Parliament on 21 April.<br>
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“What’s needed now most is to disrupt the abuse of power and
imbalance, to bring about a transition to a fair society that works
together to end the fossil-fuel era,” the XR statement read. “Our
politicians, addicted to greed and bloated on profits, won’t do it
without pressure.”...<br>
The government has said that “over recent years, guerrilla tactics
used by a small minority of protesters have caused a
disproportionate impact on the hard-working majority seeking to go
about their everyday lives, cost millions in taxpayers’ money and
put lives at risk”.<br>
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XR also called for greater collaboration between different protest
groups while admitting this may be “uncomfortable or difficult”.<br>
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“The conditions for change in the UK have never been more favourable
– it’s time to seize the moment,” it said. “The confluence of
multiple crises presents us with a unique opportunity to mobilise
and move beyond traditional divides.<br>
<br>
“No one can do this alone, and it’s the responsibility of all of us,
not just one group … As our rights are stripped away and those
speaking out and most at risk are silenced, we must find common
ground and unite to survive.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/extinction-rebellion-announces-move-away-from-disruptive-tactics">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/extinction-rebellion-announces-move-away-from-disruptive-tactics</a><br>
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<i>[ New activist organizations take over ]</i><br>
<b>Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil vow to continue disruptive
action</b><br>
Commitment to ‘civil resistance’ comes after Extinction Rebellion
said it would prioritise ‘relationships over roadblocks’<br>
Damien Gayle<br>
Mon 2 Jan 2023<br>
Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil have doubled down on their
commitment to disruptive climate “civil resistance” after Extinction
Rebellion announced new tactics prioritising “relationships over
roadblocks”.<br>
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“It’s 2023 and XR has quit,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement. “But
it’s 2023, and we are barrelling down the highway to the loss of
ordered civil society, as extreme weather impacts tens of millions,
as our country becomes unrecognisable … there is now a need to face
reality.<br>
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“We must move from disobedience into civil resistance – this is what
the nurses and paramedics are doing. They are on the frontline of
the harm being wreaked on us and have said no more.”<br>
Insulate Britain said its supporters remained prepared to go to
prison. “Insulate Britain supporters remain committed to civil
resistance as the only appropriate and effective response to the
reality of our situation in 2023,” its statement said.<br>
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“In the UK right now, nurses, ambulance drivers and railway workers
are on strike because they understand that public disruption is
vital to demand changes that governments are not willing or are too
scared to address.”...<br>
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One activist who has campaigned with both XR and Just Stop Oil said
he was conflicted about XR’s announcement, which may attract more
supporters but at the risk of effectiveness. “My concern is our lack
of time,” he said. “If we don’t actively, noisily push for change
now, later may prove way too late to save anything.<br>
<br>
Another said it appeared XR was repositioning itself as a more
moderate group, as flank groups such as Just Stop Oil monopolised
and radicalised more extreme direct actions.<br>
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James Ozden, the director of Social Change Lab, said XR’s
repositioning could allow it to take advantage of awareness raised
by radical protests, without being implicated in their unpopularity.
“As Just Stop Oil continues to organise more disruptive protests,
it’s likely we’ll see a radical flank effect, whereby radical
tactics increase support for more moderate groups, such as
Extinction Rebellion.<br>
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“This synergistic relationship is likely to benefit the overall
climate movement, as people can join groups that appeal most to
them.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/insulate-britain-and-just-stop-oil-vow-to-continue-disruptive-action">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/insulate-britain-and-just-stop-oil-vow-to-continue-disruptive-action</a><br>
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<i>[ 48Hills news]</i><br>
<b>Is SF ready for climate change? A flooded city seemed unprepared</b><br>
Why did city officials wait until the intersections were impassible
to put out warnings and close streets?<br>
By TIM REDMOND<br>
JANUARY 1, 2023<br>
San Francisco has a detailed climate change and resilience plan.
Local officials know that it will take hundreds of millions of
dollars to prepare for what is now inevitable.<br>
<br>
We got just a tiny taste of it this weekend—and the city seemed
pretty badly unprepared.<br>
<br>
I was out in the torrential rain, riding in a cab along Cesar Chavez
Street; a bad idea in retrospect, but when we left home it seemed
fine. It was raining hard, but whatever; we had raincoats, and the
driver was happy to pick us up and head toward King Street.<br>
Then, in a ten-minute ride, I saw freeway intersections completely
flooded and cars inundated. At the Pennsylvania Street intersection,
cars were plowing, sometimes without success, through two feet or
more of water. When we got to Illinois, another flood put the cab
under; the driver was able to make it half a block to higher ground,
and we were all fine (just a bit wet as we walked to the T-Third)
but his Prius was shot.<br>
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Six hours later, I got an email from Sup. Shamann Walton telling me
to stay home because the roads weren’t safe. That’s the only message
I got from any city agency warning about road conditions (and I am
on everyone’s email list). (Sup. Catherine Stefani went to twitter
to urge us all to clean out our storm drains.)...<br>
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Why didn’t the cab companies or Uber or Lyft, which are so
tech-wired, warn their drivers to stay out of low-lying areas?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://48hills.org/2023/01/is-sf-ready-for-climate-change-a-flooded-city-seemed-unprepared/">https://48hills.org/2023/01/is-sf-ready-for-climate-change-a-flooded-city-seemed-unprepared/</a><br>
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[ DW news is based in Germany ]<br>
<b>How can we stop the super-rich from polluting the planet?</b><br>
Ajit Niranjan<br>
Jan 2, 2023<br>
From Roman Abramovich's yacht and Taylor Swift's private jet to the
sprawling warehouses of Jeff Bezos' Amazon, the lifestyles and
business interests of billionaires are baking the planet.<br>
The fury came fast when makeup mogul Kylie Jenner posted a
photograph last July of her and her boyfriend Travis Scott flanked
by two private jets and captioned "you wanna take mine or yours?"<br>
<br>
"Europe is on fire, meanwhile Kylie Jenner is taking 15-minute trips
in her private jet," wrote eating disorder campaigner Cara Lisette
in just one of the many viral tweets about Jenner's post. "I could
recycle everything, buy all my clothes second hand, compost and grow
my own food for the rest of my life and it wouldn't even begin to
offset the footprint from one of her flights."<br>
<br>
Jenner's Instagram post brought to the surface some of the
resentment brewing among young people in rich countries who feel
pressured to cut their carbon footprints. It showed the disconnect
between the world's biggest polluters and a generation terrified by
climate change, angry about injustice and reluctant to give up the
unsustainable parts of their own lifestyles.<br>
<br>
"This is literally why I stopped trying," wrote one 24-year-old
Twitter user.<br>
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Recently, private jets owned by celebrities like Taylor Swift and
Kim Kardashian have flown distances that could have been driven in a
few hours. Their journeys spewed more carbon dioxide in a matter of
minutes than the average Indian emits in a year. Flight data shows
that one night in early December, the private jets of Kylie Jenner
and Travis Scott took the same journey, landing at Van Nuys airport
in California, US, just 5 hours apart.<br>
<br>
Even then, celebrity emissions in the air are a fraction of those at
sea. Mega yachts — like Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's
162-meter-long boat that comes with two helipads and a swimming pool
— emit several times more CO2 than most mansions, planes and
limousines combined. A study published in 2021 estimated that
Abramovich's yacht emitted more carbon dioxide in 2018 than Tuvalu,
a pacific island nation of 11,000 people.<br>
<br>
"This is particularly sad," said Beatriz Barros, a researcher at the
University of Indiana who led the study, "because the island nations
are also the ones who are more at risk of consequences of climate
change like rising sea levels."<br>
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<b>'Ridiculous' levels of carbon pollution</b><br>
The biggest inequalities in carbon emissions have for decades been
between rich and poor countries. Now, inequalities within countries
explain more of the gap between clean and dirty lifestyles. The top
1% of global earners — somebody earning a yearly salary of about
€124,000 ($132,000) — are responsible for one-fifth of the growth in
carbon pollution in the last 30 years. They live in cities from
Miami to Mumbai. <br>
<br>
"The top 1% use basically a similar amount to the bottom 50% of
humanity — and so obviously that, just in terms of scale, is a
ridiculous proportion of the carbon budget," said Anisha Nazareth, a
scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute studying emissions
inequality.<br>
<br>
People who fall into that top income bracket do not lead the lavish
lifestyles of billionaires. But while private jets and mega yachts
are on the extreme end of the scale, cruise ships and commercial
passenger planes are close behind.<br>
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Flying, for instance, is one of the most polluting activities in the
world. Though aviation makes up about 3% of global carbon dioxide
emissions, it is the biggest source of pollution for those who fly.
Experts estimate just 2-4% of the global population gets onto a
plane each year.<br>
<br>
In the same way billionaires burn more fossil fuels than almost
anyone else, "there are people in the world who would rightly see us
in the same relative light," said Ketan Joshi, an independent writer
and consultant on clean energy, referring to middle-class people in
rich countries. "You are someone's Kylie Jenner."<br>
<br>
<b>'Surprising support' for wealthy lifestyles</b><br>
Researchers have explored ways to fix this. By raising taxes,
closing legal loopholes and cracking down on tax havens,
policymakers could stop the wealthiest funding the carbon-intensive
excesses of their lavish lifestyles. It would also free up more
money to invest in clean energy infrastructure needed to stop the
planet heating.<br>
<br>
But policies to raise taxes often face fierce opposition — even from
those who would benefit from them. "In reality, we see a surprising
support of the lifestyles of the very wealthy," said Stefan
Gössling, a professor at Lund University in Sweden who has studied
inequalities in flight emissions. People brought up in cultures that
idolize the rich often oppose policies to restrict their lives.<br>
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The burden of a flight tax, for instance, would mainly hit richer
people — particularly business travelers. In the EU, half the
spending on air travel comes from the richest 20%. In the US and
Canada, the 19% of adults who take more than four flights a year
account for 79% of the flights. Some scientists and politicians have
called for a frequent flyer levy, where each extra flight a person
takes carries a higher cost.<br>
<br>
These inequalities mean policies to tax flights could generate vital
revenue from those most able to pay. A study published in October by
the International Council on Clean Transport, an environmental think
tank, found that a global frequent flyer levy could generate the
$121 billion needed in investments each year to decarbonize aviation
through 2050. Frequent fliers who take more than six flights per
year — and make up just 2% of the population — would pay 81% of it.<br>
<br>
Policymakers could also curb emissions from the very richest by
banning private jets that run on kerosene. Such a ban would hit only
a small percentage of flights but could push billionaires with cash
to spare to invest in clean technologies that are needed for greener
ways of flying. Experts say early investments like this would help
advance sustainable aviation fuels and electric flights for
everybody, scaling them up sooner and bringing costs down faster.<br>
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Researchers also stress that the top 1% of earners — and even the
top 10% making €37,200 a year — should not limit climate action to
what they purchase.<br>
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A study published in the journal Nature in 2021 found rich people
have a major role in slowing climate change as consumers, investors,
role models, organizational participants and citizens. That could
mean taking savings out of banks that lend to fossil fuel companies,
campaigning for public transport at a local council meeting, or
pressuring their company management to replace business flights with
virtual meetings.<br>
<br>
"If these people in the top tier of society, measured in income and
influence, actively went for this, we would see changes happening
much quicker than what we see today," said Kristian Nielsen, a
climate scientist and lead author of the study. "This is not
available to the average person."<br>
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But it also works the other way. Some of the world's richest people
and companies have poured money into lobbying against policies that
threaten fossil fuels. For the richest, said Nazareth from the
Stockholm Environment Institute, "a bigger problem is really the way
they exert political influence through campaign donations — and
influence in general on the lifestyles of everybody else."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dw.com/en/rich-people-billionaires-emissions/a-64146449">https://www.dw.com/en/rich-people-billionaires-emissions/a-64146449</a><br>
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<i>[ in the Kansas City Star, - text and audio ] </i><br>
<b>Is climate change linked to gun violence? A new study shows how
KC area is impacted </b><br>
BY KATIE MOORE <br>
JANUARY 2, 2023<br>
On the hottest day of 2022 in Kansas City, three people were shot
and killed. Three more were shot and survived, the Kansas City
Police Department said. The temperature clocked in at 101 degrees on
July 23, according to Jared Leighton, a lead forecaster with the
National Weather Service in Kansas City. With 171 homicides, this
year became the second deadliest on record in Kansas City — and some
of those fatal shootings may be linked to an unexpected cause:
climate change...<br>
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Researchers analyzed more than 116,000 shootings in 100 cities and
found that nearly 7% could be attributed to days with above-average
temperatures, not only in the summer, but also at other times of the
year when it was unseasonably warm. In Kansas City, Missouri, the
percentage of shootings tied to days with above-average temperatures
was 6.13%, while in Kansas City, Kansas, it was 7.86%, according to
the study published last month in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.<br>
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Dr. Marvia Jones, director of the Kansas City Health Department,
said the study’s findings aren’t surprising, but do “gives us a
little bit more of a guide, I would say as to how we need to align
our efforts.” She reiterated the importance of trees, calling it a
“dual purpose intervention.” The health department and other local
organizations are also working together to get an early start on
programming for young people to ensure they “have access to positive
things to do over the summer,” Jones said, adding that efforts are
focused on underserved areas. Eighteen of the 2022 homicide victims
in Kansas City were 18 years or younger and several juveniles were
arrested in connection with murders this year in the metro.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article270358682.html">https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article270358682.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Oh it could be any city - says Journal of the American Medical
Society ]</i><br>
<b>Analysis of Daily Ambient Temperature and Firearm Violence in 100
US Cities</b><br>
December 16, 2022<br>
Vivian H. Lyons, PhD, MPH1,2; Emma L. Gause, MS, MA3,4; Keith R.
Spangler, PhD, ScM4; et alGregory A. Wellenius, ScD, MSc4; Jonathan
Jay, DrPH, JD5<br>
JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(12):e2247207.
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.47207<br>
<b>Key Points</b><br>
<blockquote><b>Question</b> Are higher temperatures associated with
increased risk of a firearm shooting?<br>
<br>
<b>Findings </b> In this cross-sectional analysis of the 100
cities with largest burden of firearm shootings in the US, 6.85%
of all shootings were associated with above-average temperatures.<br>
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<b>Meaning</b> These findings indicate a need for heat adaptation
strategies for mitigation of risk of firearm shootings.<br>
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<b>Abstract</b><br>
Importance Firearm violence is a leading public health crisis in
the US. Understanding whether and how ambient temperature is
associated with firearm violence may identify new avenues for
prevention and intervention.<br>
<br>
Objective To estimate the overall and regional association between
hotter temperatures and higher risk of firearm violence in the US.<br>
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Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study used
distributed lag nonlinear models, controlling for seasonality and
long-term time trends by city and pooled results overall and by
climate region. The most populous cities in the US with the highest
number of assault-related firearm incidence (ie, shootings) from
2015 to 2020 were analyzed. Data analysis was performed from October
2021 to June 2022.<br>
Exposures Maximum daily temperature by city.<br>
<br>
<b>Main Outcomes and Measures </b>The primary outcome was the
number of assault-related firearm shootings by city.<br>
<br>
Results A total of 116 511 shootings in 100 cities were included in
this analysis. The pooled analysis estimated that 6.85% (95% CI,
6.09%-7.46%) of all shootings were attributable to days hotter than
city-specific median temperatures. This equates to 7973 total
shootings (95% CI, 7092-8688 total shootings) across the 100 cities
over the 6-year study period, although the number of total persons
injured or killed would be higher. Estimated risk of firearm
incidents increased almost monotonically with higher temperatures,
with a local peak at the 84th percentile of the temperature range
corresponding to a relative risk of 1.17 (95% CI, 1.12-1.21)
compared with the median temperature. However, even moderately hot
temperatures were associated with higher risk of shootings. Although
significant, there was low heterogeneity between cities (I2 = 11.7%;
Cochran Q test, P = .02), indicating regional or climate-specific
variation in the daily temperature and incident shootings
relationship.<br>
<br>
<b>Conclusions and Relevance </b> These findings underscore the
importance of heat adaptation strategies broadly throughout the year
to reduce shootings, rather than focusing on only the hottest
days...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799635?resultClick=1">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799635?resultClick=1</a><br>
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<i>[ Says the website OilPrice.com ]</i><br>
<b>The Oil Market Crisis Sparked By Russia’s Invasion Is Nearing Its
End</b><br>
By Alex Kimani - Jan 02, 2023<br>
-- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a major market crisis,
sending oil and gas prices to multi-decade highs and causing the
Euro to crash below parity with the dollar.<br>
-- Today, energy prices have fallen back to pre-war levels, driven
lower by fears of a global recession and weak oil demand in China
due to Covid outbreaks.<br>
-- Analysts remain divided regarding oil prices in 2023 however,
with some analysts believing the return of China and the lack of
Russian energy will send prices soaring.<br>
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<b>Analysts Are All Over the Place</b><br>
In this market, however, there are just as many bulls as bears, and
the handle on the future is slippery, at best. <br>
<br>
Some predict that global oil demand could soar as much as 4% in the
coming year if the world manages to fully emerge from Covid
restrictions. <br>
<br>
Hedge fund trader Pierre Andurand has told Bloomberg that oil demand
may increase by 3 million to 4 million barrels a day in 2023 helped
by a switch to oil from gas. <br>
<br>
Likewise, some analysts believe that many of the headwinds that have
cut short the oil price rally this year, including China’s
zero-Covid policy and the coordinated SPR releases by several
governments, will no longer be there in 2023. Coupled with sanctions
on Russia’s oil and gas, this should elevate oil prices. He has also
predicted that the energy sector will continue to outperform other
market sectors due to the high demand for oil and gas stocks.<br>
By Alex Kimani for Oilprice.com<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Oil-Market-Crisis-Sparked-By-Russias-Invasion-Is-Nearing-Its-End.html">https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Oil-Market-Crisis-Sparked-By-Russias-Invasion-Is-Nearing-Its-End.html</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at when the Republican party
"stepped off the cliff" ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 3, 2011</b></i></font> <br>
January 3, 2011: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly notes that
Republican presidential candidates who now try to deny the existence
of human-caused climate change will have to figure out a way to
rewrite history:<br>
<blockquote>January 3, 2011<br>
THE NEW LITMUS TEST.... A whole host of Republicans will launch
their presidential campaigns fairly soon, and they'll do so
knowing that the party's voters have a variety of litmus tests in
mind.<br>
<br>
For example, if a candidate supports abortion rights, there's no
real point in even trying to win the nomination. If he or she
believes someone, at some point, might need to see a tax increase
by some amount, he or she will almost certainly lose. GOP
presidential hopefuls who are respectful of gay rights should
expect to do very poorly.<br>
<br>
And in advance of 2012, it's probably time to add a new issue to
the list of litmus tests: only climate deniers need apply. The
Republican tent, apparently, is only big enough to hold
anti-science, anti-evidence leaders.<br>
<br>
For some very likely presidential candidates, that's a real
problem.<br>
<blockquote>It may be heresy to conservatives, but a trip down
memory lane shows nearly all of the top-tier Republican
presidential contenders want to save the planet from global
warming.<br>
<br>
On the campaign stump, in books, speeches and
nationally-televised commercials, aspiring GOP White House
candidates such as Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney
have warned in recent years about the threats from climate
change and pledged to limit greenhouse gases. Some have even
committed the ultimate sin, endorsing the controversial
cap-and-trade concept that was eventually branded "cap and tax."<br>
<br>
Now, as they prepare for a wide-open primary season, many of the
Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a
conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and
climate skeptics who don't take kindly to environmental issues
so closely linked with Al Gore.<br>
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"They're in an odd place," Grover Norquist, president of
Americans for Tax Reform, told POLITICO. "They better have an
explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this won't happen
again."<br>
</blockquote>
Yes, in Republican circles in 2011, those who don't reject the
scientific consensus on the climate crisis will be rejected out of
hand. Those who've been even somewhat reasonable on the issue in
recent years should expect to grovel shamelessly -- a trait that's
always attractive in presidential candidates.<br>
<br>
The number of likely GOP candidates who've actually said out loud
that the planet is warming and that human activity is responsible
is, oddly enough, larger than the number of consistent climate
deniers. Sarah Palin has said pollution contributes to global
warming and "we've got to do something about it." Romney has said
he believes the planet is warming and at least used to support
cap-and-trade. Huckabee and Pawlenty have backed cap-and-trade --
which was, originally, a Republican idea, by the way -- in recent
years. Even Newt Gingrich used to demand "action to address
climate change," and participated briefly with Al Gore's Repower
America campaign.<br>
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This wasn't a problem up until very recently. John McCain's 2008
presidential platform not only acknowledged climate change, it
included a call for a cap-and-trade plan -- and he won the
nomination fairly easily. As recently as 2006, rank-and-file
Republican voters, by and large, believed what the mainstream
believed when it came to climate science: global warming is real,
it's a problem, and it requires attention.<br>
<br>
But that was before the GOP fell off the right-wing cliff. Now
every Republican who was even remotely sensible on this "better
have an explanation, an excuse or a mea culpa for why this won't
happen again."<br>
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—Steve Benen <br>
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<p><i>[ Archived comment from Jan 3, 2011:]</i><br>
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<p>I have believed that the repuke party, in its current
existence, CAN ONLY nominate an insane person or a totally
obvious liar in 2012.<br>
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In other than the reddest of red states, there will not be
enough crazies to carry their state for the crazy who will be
nominated by the repukes. Hell, in 2008 even in this f*cked up
state of Indiana the idiots realized how horrible a
McCrap/Palin election would be! The 2012 repuke ticket will be
even crazier.<br>
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Which is why Obama will get reelected and progressives
actually have a chance against Citizens United Not Timid vs
FEC money!<br>
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I just hope that the dumbocrap party does not become the
repuke-lite/DLC/DINO party for all nominations to
congressional and senate seats.<i><br>
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