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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February 2, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ from Yale Climate Change Communication</i></font><font
face="Calibri"> Press Release</font><font face="Calibri"><i> ] </i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Change in US state-level public
opinion about climate change: 2008-2020 </b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">We are pleased to announce the publication of a
new article, “Change in US state-level public opinion about
climate change: 2008-2020” in the journal Environmental Research
Letters.<br>
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Americans' attitudes toward global warming are changing. Our own
surveys in the US, as well as data from other researchers, show
that public understanding that global warming is happening, that
humans are responsible, and that there is a scientific consensus
about these facts have increased over the past decade. We know
much less, however, about how such opinions have changed
sub-nationally, such as at the state level. Understanding
state-level opinions is important because many climate and energy
policies have to be enacted by state leaders. Having information
about state-level trends in public opinion can also help policy-
and decision-makers understand how people’s beliefs and attitudes
are changing on climate and energy over time.<br>
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We find that public perceptions that global warming is already
harming and will harm the US increased in every state from 2008 to
2020 (see figure), as did the overall importance of global warming
as an issue. Public support for policies to address global warming
was generally stable in states with a more conservative
population, but increased in states with a more liberal
population, like California and New York.</font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/change-in-us-state-level-public-opinion-about-climate-change-2008-2020/">https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/change-in-us-state-level-public-opinion-about-climate-change-2008-2020/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Understanding that there is a consensus among
scientists that global warming is happening increased in every
state by about 16 percentage points on average over the 13-year
time period. From 2008 to 2020, more people in every state also
said that global warming is important to them (+9 percentage
points) and that it will harm future generations (+9 percentage
points), people in the US (+14 percentage points), and them
personally (+11 percentage points). Some states showed
particularly strong increases -- for example, Utahns increased
their understanding of the scientific consensus by 22 percentage
points, and worry among Idahoans increased by 11 percentage points
from 2015 to 2020.<br>
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More people said Congress and local officials should do more about
global warming (+4 percentage points and +5 percentage points,
respectively over the 13 years), but there was little change in
state-level views about funding research into renewable energy or
regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The smaller change for
these policies may be due to a ‘ceiling effect’ – strong
majorities in every state have long shown consistent support for
these policies.<br>
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Perhaps surprisingly, there was virtually no change at the state
level from 2008 to 2020 in how often people reported talking about
global warming with family and friends.<br>
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You can find more state-level maps from this study on our
website.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/change-in-us-state-level-public-opinion-about-climate-change-2008-2020/">https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/change-in-us-state-level-public-opinion-about-climate-change-2008-2020/</a><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mailchi.mp/yale/changes-in-us-public-opinion-about-climate-change-at-the-state-level-2008-2020?e=9c7d3ebc85">https://mailchi.mp/yale/changes-in-us-public-opinion-about-climate-change-at-the-state-level-2008-2020?e=9c7d3ebc85</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ see the full research paper in the Journal
Environmental Research Letters ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Change in US state-level public
opinion about climate change: 2008–2020</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Published 12 December 2022 <br>
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 17, Number 12<br>
Citation Jennifer R Marlon et al 2022 Environ. Res. Lett. 17
124046<br>
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/aca702<br>
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<blockquote><b><font face="Calibri">Abstract</font></b><br>
<font face="Calibri">Public attitudes toward climate change
influence climate and energy policies and guide individual
mitigation and adaptation behaviors. Over the last decade, as
scientific certainty about the causes and impacts of, and
solutions to the climate crisis has increased, cities, states,
and regions in the United States have pursued diverse policy
strategies. Yet, our understanding of how Americans' climate
views are changing remains largely limited to national trends.
Here we use a large US survey dataset ($N = 27\,075$) to
estimate dynamic, state-level changes in 16 climate change
beliefs, risk perceptions, and policy preferences over 13 years
(2008–2020). We find increases in global warming issue
importance and perceived harm in every state. Policy support,
however, increased in more liberal states like California and
New York, but remained stable elsewhere. Year-by-year estimates
of state-level climate opinions can be used to support
sub-national mitigation and adaptation efforts that depend on
public support and engagement.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca702/meta#erlaca702s3">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca702/meta#erlaca702s3</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Yale Climate Connections report ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Dozens of billion-dollar weather disasters
hit Earth in 2022</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The year was the second-costliest on record for
drought. It also had three mega-disasters costing at least $20
billion, plus a heat wave that killed over 40,000 people in
Europe.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">by JEFF MASTERS</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">JANUARY 30, 2023</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The planet was besieged by 42 billion-dollar
weather disasters in 2022, and the total damage wrought by weather
disasters was $360 billion, with 39% of that total being insured
damages, said insurance broker Gallagher Re in its annual report
issued Jan. 30. A separate accounting by insurance broker Aon,
released Jan. 25, cataloged 37 billion-dollar weather disasters in
2022, with a total economic loss of $313 billion. This was 4%
above the 21st-century annual average.<br>
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Global losses were dominated by one event: Hurricane Ian’s
catastrophic impact on Florida and then South Carolina, which
generated economic and insured losses that were 32% and 39%,
respectively, of the globe’s entire annual total...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">“The fingerprints of climate change were
visible on virtually every major weather and climate event in
2022, once again highlighting the urgency to implement proper
planning and investment strategies that will limit the risk to
life and property,” noted the Gallagher Re report. However, it is
difficult to quantify how much climate change contributed to these
disaster losses since the dominant cause of increasing damages in
recent years is thought to be because of an increase in wealth and
exposure — in other words, more people with more stuff living in
vulnerable areas...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Three mega-disasters costing over $20
billion</b><br>
Three individual weather events in 2022 topped the $20 billion
economic loss threshold: Hurricane Ian ($113-$115 billion),
drought in the U.S. ($21-$22 billion), and drought in Europe
($22-$26 billion). This was just the fifth time on record in which
three of more $20+ billion events had been registered in a
calendar year.<br>
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<b>Four nations had their costliest weather disasters on record in
2022</b><br>
Based on historical disaster costs at EM-DAT, Pakistan’s $15
billion 2o22 flood catastrophe (9% of GDP) was that nation’s most
expensive weather disaster on record, ahead of the $12.8 billion
(2022 USD) damages from flooding in 2010.<br>
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In addition, three nations in Africa — Nigeria, South Africa, and
Somalia — set all-time records for their most costly
weather-related disaster during 2022. According to EM-DAT, the
2022 floods in Nigeria did $4.2 billion in damage (previous
costliest weather disaster: flooding in 2012 that cost $640
million); the 2022 floods in South Africa did $3.5 billion in
damage (previous costliest disaster: $2.2 billion 2022 USD from a
1990 drought). These are the two most expensive weather disasters
on record in all of Africa (adjusted for inflation).<br>
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In Somalia, drought that began in 2021 and continued into late
2022 cost $1.1 billion, making it that nation’s costliest weather
disaster on record. Neighboring Ethiopia suffered $640 million in
drought losses, which was that nation’s second-costliest weather
disaster on record, behind the $1.7 billion cost of the 2015-2017
drought. Drought costs were also significant in Kenya in 2022
($280 million), ranking as that nation’s second-costliest weather
disaster on record. Disaster costs in Europe from EM-DAT for 2022
were not available at the time of this writing, but using the 2022
damage stats from Gallagher Re, the droughts in France and Spain
were the second-costliest weather disasters on record in those
nations, when compared to previous disasters logged in EM-DAT.<br>
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For comparison, two nations had their most expensive
weather-related natural disaster in history in the EM-DAT database
in 2021, one in 2020, seven in 2019, two in 2018, three in 2017,
four in 2016, and nine in 2015. Note that these tallies will be
considerably different using Aon or Gallagher Re disaster figures,
which often differ from EM-DAT’s by a factor of two. Aon’s
database is generally superior to EM-DAT’s but is not publicly
available in full detail.<br>
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<i>[ Net Zero not enough - try less-than-zero. ]</i><br>
<b>Even with emission cuts, 2º heating is likely by 2054</b><br>
January 31, 2023<br>
AI system says climate will warm faster than promised by Paris
Agreement<br>
A new study has found that emission goals designed to achieve the
world’s most ambitious climate target – 1.5º Celsius above
pre-industrial levels – may in fact be required to avoid more
extreme climate change of 2º.<br>
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The study, published January 30 in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, provides new evidence that global warming is on
track to reach 1.5º C above pre-industrial averages in the early
2030s, regardless of how much greenhouse gas emissions rise or fall
in the coming decade.<br>
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The new “time to threshold” estimate results from an analysis that
employs artificial intelligence to predict climate change using
recent temperature observations from around the world.<br>
<br>
“Using an entirely new approach that relies on the current state of
the climate system to make predictions about the future, we confirm
that the world is on the cusp of crossing the 1.5º C threshold,”
said the study’s lead author, Stanford University climate scientist
Noah Diffenbaugh.<br>
<br>
If emissions remain high over the next few decades, the AI predicts
a one-in-two chance that Earth will become 2 degrees Celsius hotter
on average compared to pre-industrial times by the middle of this
century, and a more than four-in-five chance of reaching that
threshold by 2060.<br>
<br>
According to the analysis, co-authored by Colorado State University
atmospheric scientist Elizabeth Barnes, the AI predicts the world
would likely reach 2º even in a scenario in which emissions decline
in the coming decades. “Our AI model is quite convinced that there
has already been enough warming that 2º is likely to be exceeded if
reaching net-zero emissions takes another half century,” said
Diffenbaugh.<br>
<br>
This finding may be controversial among scientists and policymakers
because other authoritative assessments, including the most recent
report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, have
concluded that the 2º mark is unlikely to be reached if emissions
decline to net zero before 2080.<br>
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Why does half a degree matter?<br>
<br>
Crossing the 1.5º and 2º thresholds would mean failing to achieve
the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which countries pledged to
keep global warming to “well below” 2º above pre-industrial levels,
while pursuing the more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5º.<br>
<br>
Already, the world is 1.1º hotter on average than it was before
fossil fuel combustion took off in the 1800s, and the litany of
impacts from that warming includes more frequent wildfires, more
extreme rainfall and flooding, and longer, more intense heat waves.<br>
<br>
Because these impacts are already emerging, every fraction of a
degree of global warming is predicted to intensify the consequences
for people and ecosystems. As average temperatures climb, it becomes
more likely that the world will reach thresholds – sometimes called
tipping points – that cause new consequences, such as melting of
large polar ice sheets or massive forest die-offs. As a result,
scientists expect impacts to be far more severe and widespread
beyond 2º.<br>
<br>
In working on the new study, Diffenbaugh said he was surprised to
find the AI predicted the world would still be very likely to reach
the 2º threshold even in a scenario where emissions rapidly decline
to net zero by 2076. The AI predicted a one-in-two chance of
reaching 2º by 2054 in this scenario, with a roughly two-in-three
chance of crossing the threshold between 2044 and 2065.<br>
<br>
It remains possible, however, to bend the odds away from more
extreme climate change by quickly reducing the amount of carbon
dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases being added to the
atmosphere. In the years since the Paris climate pact, many nations
have pledged to reach net-zero emissions more quickly than is
reflected in the low-emissions scenario used in the new study. In
particular, Diffenbaugh points out that many countries have net-zero
goals between 2050 and 2070, including China, the European Union,
India, and the United States.<br>
<br>
“Those net-zero pledges are often framed around achieving the Paris
Agreement 1.5º goal,” said Diffenbaugh. “Our results suggest that
those ambitious pledges might be needed to avoid 2º.”<br>
<br>
AI trained to learn from past warming<br>
<br>
Previous assessments have used global climate models to simulate
future warming trajectories; statistical techniques to extrapolate
recent warming rates; and carbon budgets to calculate how quickly
emissions will need to decline to stay below the Paris Agreement
targets.<br>
<br>
For the new estimates, Diffenbaugh and Barnes used a type of
artificial intelligence known as a neural network, which they
trained on the vast archive of outputs from widely used global
climate model simulations.<br>
<br>
Once the neural network had learned patterns from these simulations,
the researchers asked the AI to predict the number of years until a
given temperature threshold will be reached when given maps of
actual annual temperature anomalies as input – that is, observations
of how much warmer or cooler a place was in a given year compared to
the average for that same place during a reference period,
1951-1980.<br>
<br>
To test for accuracy, the researchers challenged the model to
predict the current level of global warming, 1.1º, based on
temperature anomaly data for each year from 1980 to 2021. The AI
correctly predicted that the current level of warming would be
reached in 2022, with a most likely range of 2017 to 2027. The model
also correctly predicted the pace of decline in the number of years
until 1.1º that has occurred over the recent decades.<br>
<br>
“This was really the ‘acid test’ to see if the AI could predict the
timing that we know has occurred,” Diffenbaugh said. “We were pretty
skeptical that this method would work until we saw that result. The
fact that the AI has such high accuracy increases my confidence in
its predictions of future warming.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Fires in California - rains make future
fuels, drought and heat makes it ready ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>What will those heavy rains mean for
wildfire season?</b><br>
Storms left California snow-capped and wet, but other factors make
future hard to predict.<br>
By Hayley Smith<br>
It’s something of a Golden State paradox: Dry winters can pave the
way for dangerous fire seasons fueled by dead vegetation, but wet
winters — like the one the state has seen so far — can also spell
danger by spurring heaps of new growth that can later act as fuel
for flames.<br>
Experts say it’s too soon to know with certainty what the upcoming
wildfire season has in store. The atmospheric rivers that pounded
California in January have left the state snow-capped and wet,
which could be a fire deterrent if soils stay damp. But if no more
rains arrive — or if other, less predictable factors such as
lightning storms and heat waves develop later in the year — all
that progress could go out the window.<br>
“The dice are loaded for a weak fire season, but there are
multiple things that could cause it to go the other way,” said
Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at UCLA.<br>
There’s no question the recent rains offered some relief. The
storms moved most of California out of the extreme drought
categories in which it has been mired for more than three years,
and portions of the Sierra Nevada are still buried under multiple
feet of snow.<br>
But lower-elevation areas could be at risk, Williams said. That
includes the hills around Los Angeles and the foothills of the
Sierra Nevada and northern coastal ranges, which are bursting with
new grasses that can easily dry out.<br>
“This year, we’ve loaded up the ground with a whole bunch of new
vegetation, and so in summertime — as long as the summer is hot
and dry — the probability of grass fires is probably higher this
year than normal,” he said.<br>
Capt. Robert Foxworthy, a spokesman for the California Department
of Forestry and Fire Protection, said he was so far “optimistic”
about the season in higher-elevation areas, where the month ended
wetter than in recent years. In 2021, dry conditions paved the way
for the Dixie and Caldor fires to become the first to ever burn
from one side of the Sierra to the other .<br>
“Obviously, the more moisture we get, the better we’re going to
be,” Foxworthy said. “The more snowpack we have, the better chance
we have of it being a quieter fire season overall.”<br>
But much depends on whether the rest of the wet season brings more
rain, he said. Seasonal forecasts are inconclusive , pointing to
equal chances of dryness or wetness in much of California through
April.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">If no more rain falls, and if temperatures rise
and strong winds arrive, “then I think we’ll be in a completely
different place come summertime,” he said.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">What’s more, moisture is only one ingredient in
how the fire season develops. Many blazes are triggered by heat,
lightning, winds and other factors that are harder to predict.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“I can’t tell you how many people are going to
drive down the road dragging a chain behind their vehicle that may
start a couple of fires. I can’t tell you if we’re going to get a
big lightning outbreak ... that’s going to drop 15,000 lightning
strikes in two days, starting a bunch of fires,” Foxworthy said.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">There are other factors as well. Many of
California’s largest fires in recent years have started during
intense heat waves, which are becoming hotter, longer and more
frequent due to global warming, increasing their likelihood of
contributing to conflagrations, Williams said.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Climate change is also contributing to
worsening aridification and evapotranspiration , or the processes
by which the state’s atmosphere is becoming thirstier and sapping
more moisture from plants and soil.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“The atmosphere is going to be faster to take
the water back, because the air is warmer and more arid,” Williams
said. “And so this spring, evaporation rates will be higher than
they would have been given the same winter storms in a cooler
world.”<br>
Also in the mix is the anticipated arrival of El Niño later this
year, said Paul Pastelok, senior meteorologist and lead long-range
forecaster at Accuweather. El Niño — a warming of sea-surface
temperatures in the tropical Pacific — is often associated with
wet conditions in the state, especially in Southern California.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Pastelok said an El Niño pattern could pull
more moisture into Southern California in fall and winter,
potentially holding back the fire season. But its biggest effect
would probably be felt next year as it dampens soils and spurs new
growth again.<br>
The main concern for this year is the timing of the dryness, he
said. In fact, the wet start to January could simply push the
beginning of fire season later.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“What we notice is at higher elevations, these
kind of wet, snowy rushes tend to delay the fire season — it tends
to get put off until later-than-normal time periods, probably
toward the fall,” Pastelok said. “Whereas the lower elevations, it
really doesn’t matter much. The soils will dry out quickly, the
dry fuels will come on strong as long as there’s no
interruptions.”<br>
Last year’s season also proved how unpredictable fire in the West
can be. The state started the year with record dryness, and all
signs were pointing to another bad season . Drought-driven fire
seasons in 2020 and 2021 broke records, burning 4.4 million and
2.6 million acres, respectively.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">That forecast largely failed to manifest in
2022 , with the year delivering one of the weaker seasons in
recent memory, 364,000 acres.<br>
That was thanks largely to some well-timed rains that helped
dampen burgeoning blazes, as well as a lack of “trigger
mechanisms” such as lightning storms and strong wind events,
Pastelok said.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Foxworthy, of Cal Fire, said such
unpredictability speaks to the challenges of forecasting,
especially so early in the year.<br>
“We’re optimistic because all the fuels are going to have more
moisture in them, but I can’t say one way or the other because we
don’t know what’s going to happen from this point until summer,”
he said.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Big Ag needs Congress to agree by Oct
first ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Oh crop! Hill preps for ag-climate
clash.</b><br>
By Arianna Skibell<br>
02/01/2023 <br>
A climate change battle is brewing in Congress, and it’s not about
electric vehicles or pipelines.<br>
<br>
It’s about cows and dirt, writes POLITICO’s E&E News reporter
Adam Aton.<br>
<br>
The five-year farm bill is scheduled to expire by Oct. 1, making
it one of the few must-pass legislative items in this divided
Congress.<br>
<br>
The farm bill shapes large swaths of American life, from the crops
farmers grow to the kinds of food low-income families can obtain.
But it’s also becoming a major battleground for the climate
crisis.<br>
<br>
Agriculture contributes about 11 percent of U.S. planet-warming
pollution, and unlike greenhouse gases from the power sector, that
is not forecast to decline any time soon.<br>
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Plus, the impacts of a changing climate for farmers — from
historic drought in the West and increased flooding in the
Northeast to shorter growing periods and shifting crop-planting
dates — are increasingly hard to ignore. That’s why the Inflation
Reduction Act allocated about $20 billion to preexisting farm bill
programs.<br>
<br>
“The farm bill is probably going to be the piece of legislation in
the next two years with the biggest impact on the climate and the
environment,” Peter Lehner, managing attorney for Earthjustice’s
Sustainable Food and Farming Program, told Adam.<br>
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That also means lawmakers from both parties will have strong
opinions about how the money is spent (we’re talking roughly half
a trillion dollars here). While Democrats focus on preserving the
climate law’s $20 billion funding boost, some GOP lawmakers want
to redirect that money to other programs, such as crop subsidies.
And some Republicans want across-the-board spending cuts.<br>
<br>
That has some observers worried the bill could get delayed or
derailed in the House, which happened back in 2012.<br>
<br>
But advocates see some inroads with Republicans, who could face
pressure to preserve climate programs that farmers like. The idea
is that the Inflation Reduction Act’s extra climate funding could
create a self-reinforcing cycle of support, creating demand among
farmers to keep those programs going.<br>
<br>
Some Biden administration officials are already driving that point
home.<br>
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“There’s historic money invested in this, and there are some
people that want to take it away,” Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack said at this week’s winter meeting of the National
Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Everything You Need To Know About Climate
Change</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Kurtis Baute</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">13,160 views Sep 1, 2022</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">It's real, it's already happening, it's bad,
but we can stop it from getting worse by keeping fossil fuels in
the ground. We have the solutions, we just need to act on them.
This video is my best attempt to answer how we do that, and
hopefully help you figure out what role you can take.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Sources:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/ynfwrfw6">https://tinyurl.com/ynfwrfw6</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Essay version of this video:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@kurtisbaute/everything-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change-d54905cf3de3">https://medium.com/@kurtisbaute/everything-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change-d54905cf3de3</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Podcasts Mentioned:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fivefourpod.com/">https://www.fivefourpod.com/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.hottakepod.com/">https://www.hottakepod.com/</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">List of Books Mentioned:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/c9r3kksv">https://tinyurl.com/c9r3kksv</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Get Involved:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">FridaysForFuture.org</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://rebellion.global/">https://rebellion.global/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sunrisemovement.org/">https://www.sunrisemovement.org/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">350.org</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">DemandJustice.org</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Figure out who to vote for:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Leadnow.ca <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://voteearthnow.com/">https://voteearthnow.com/</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Other Climate YouTubers to Check out:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/fyu59z8x">https://tinyurl.com/fyu59z8x</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">How to make a go-bag:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ready.gov/kit">https://www.ready.gov/kit</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Mental Health Resources:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Suicide Hotlines (international) <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/">https://blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Support groups: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/">https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/</a></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Essay version of this video (Not a direct
transcript, but close)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkM0TQUCFQQNxBPWfOZenYUJaNDtgYdZidwxVSdRI_w/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkM0TQUCFQQNxBPWfOZenYUJaNDtgYdZidwxVSdRI_w/edit</a></font><br>
<blockquote><b><font face="Calibri">TIMESTAMPS</font></b><br>
<font face="Calibri">00:00 Part One - Science and History</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">18:26 Part Two - System Change</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">38:04 Part Three - Internal Activism</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">43:26 Part Four - Revolution</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mlj3QxJe4k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mlj3QxJe4k</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ scary book, terrifying reality ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>‘The Deluge’ Is a Climate Nightmare—and It’s
Based on Reality</b><br>
Stephen Markley explains how he wrote a dystopia that feels a
little too real.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gizmodo.com/the-deluge-is-a-climate-nightmare-and-it-s-based-on-r-1850053112">https://gizmodo.com/the-deluge-is-a-climate-nightmare-and-it-s-based-on-r-1850053112</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>February 2, 2017</b></i></font> <br>
February 2, 2017:<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">“Republicans took one of their
first steps on Thursday to officially dismantle Obama-era
environmental regulations by easing restrictions on coal mining,
bolstering an industry that President Trump has made a symbol of
America’s neglected heartland.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“Using an obscure law that allows Congress to
review regulations before they take effect, the Senate voted to
reverse the Stream Protection Rule, which seeks to protect the
nation’s waterways from debris generated by a practice called
surface mining. The Interior Department had said the rule would
protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests by
keeping coal mining debris away from nearby waters.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“The Senate vote was 54 to 45.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“The Obama administration had finalized the
rule in its final days, putting it in the cross hairs of the
Republican-controlled Congress, together with other last-minute
Obama regulations. The House voted Wednesday to repeal it. The
bill now goes to Mr. Trump, who has vowed to peel back
regulations, for his signature.”</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/energy-environment/senate-coal-regulations.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/energy-environment/senate-coal-regulations.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0</a>
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