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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Methane has always been a wildcard - it's hard to measure, hard
to control, yet it appears everywhere, then it does horrific
damage to the atmosphere ]<b><br>
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<b>TPDS: Methane: possible tipping points or surprises</b><br>
World Climate Research Programme<br>
Nov 12, 2023 Tipping Elements Discussion Series<br>
This webinar is part of the AIMES, Earth Commission, Future Earth,
WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, and partners
discussion series on tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt
changes in the Earth. We discussed why is methane rising, how are
sources and sinks changing, what is the risk from hydrates? <br>
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Speakers: <br>
Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway, University of London): Global Methane
- is methane telling us that climate warming feedbacks have already
driven us over a termination-scale tipping point? <br>
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Sara Knox (McGill University): Network science: unlocking novel
insights on regional and global methane cycling. <br>
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The presentations were followed by a Q&A/ discussion time. <br>
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This webinar was moderated by Gabrielle Dreyfus (Institute for
Governance & Sustainable Development). <br>
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Read more:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://methane-possible-tipping-points-or-surprises.confetti.events/">https://methane-possible-tipping-points-or-surprises.confetti.events/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlyBVT-OJg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlyBVT-OJg</a><br>
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[ Methane has always been a wild-card - a persistent rabbit hole ]<br>
<b>Methane: possible tipping points or surprises</b><br>
Why is methane rising, how are sources and sinks changing, what is
the risk from hydrates?<br>
7 NOVEMBER 2023<br>
Presentations<br>
<b>Global Methane - is methane telling us that climate warming
feedbacks have already driven us over a termination-scale tipping
point? </b>Euan Nisbet (Royal Holloway, University of London)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earthcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Euan_Nisbet_Presentation.pdf">https://earthcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Euan_Nisbet_Presentation.pdf</a><br>
<b>Network science: unlocking novel insights on regional and global
methane cycling</b> Sara Knox (McGill University)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earthcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sarah_Knox_Presentation.pdf">https://earthcommission.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sarah_Knox_Presentation.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://methane-possible-tipping-points-or-surprises.confetti.events/">https://methane-possible-tipping-points-or-surprises.confetti.events/</a><br>
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<i>[ Psychological health ]</i><br>
Bloomberg news<br>
<b>Climate Change Is Fueling a New Type of Anxiety, Therapists Say</b><br>
Mental health experts are reporting a rising number of patients
experiencing high levels of stress over global warming and its
impacts. How are they treating it?<br>
<br>
By Olivia Rudgard and Jack Wittels<br>
February 16, 2024 <br>
When psychotherapist Caroline Hickman was asked to help a child
overcome a fear of dogs, she introduced them to her Labradoodle,
Murphy.<br>
<br>
“You get the child to feel confident in relation to the dog and
teach the child skills to manage a dog,” she says. “You build the
skills, build the competence, build the confidence, and then they’re
less scared of dogs generally.”<br>
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Climate anxiety is a different beast, Hickman says. “We don’t 100%
know how to deal with it. And it would be a huge mistake to try and
treat it like other anxieties that we are very familiar with that
have been around for decades. This one is much, much worse.”<br>
<br>
In the most critical cases, climate anxiety disrupts the ability to
function day to day. Children and young people in this category feel
alienation from friends and family, distress when thinking about the
future and intrusive thoughts about who will survive, according to
Hickman’s research. Patients obsessively check for extreme weather,
read climate change studies and pursue radical activism. Some,
devastatingly, consider suicide as the only solution. And Hickman
isn’t the only expert seeing this. In her book A Field Guide to
Climate Anxiety, Sarah Ray describes a student who had such severe
“self-loathing eco-guilt” that she stopped consuming much at all,
including food.<br>
Most people’s concern about global warming isn’t that pronounced. It
can be difficult to pin down exactly what climate anxiety is, and
therefore what to do about it. Especially for adults, there’s still
a stigma in admitting that it’s severely affecting your life. But
therapists report they are grappling with a rise in demand from
clients who say climate change is having a profound effect on their
mental health, and studies suggest the angst is increasingly
widespread. Existing professional methods for dealing with anxiety
aren’t always suitable in these situations. For the counseling
community, the situation calls for a new playbook.<br>
<br>
In 2021, a study of 10,000 children and young people in 10
countries, co-authored by Hickman and published in The Lancet
Planetary Health, found that 59% were very or extremely worried
about climate change and more than 45% said it had a negative effect
on their daily life. A survey of mental health professionals in the
UK, published last year in The Journal of Climate Change and Health,
found that they perceived “significantly more” patients describing
climate change as a factor in their mental health or emotional
distress, an increase the participants expected to continue.
Frustratingly, climate anxiety can also overlap existing mental
health problems, making it difficult to analyze in isolation.<br>
<br>
Therapists told Bloomberg Green that they typically see an uptick in
patients struggling with climate anxiety when climate change is in
the news; often around the time of a UN climate conference, a major
scientific report or an episode of severe weather. Scientists
working on climate change were among the first groups they saw
experiencing this type of anxiety, therapists said, and those groups
are still struggling. Among the close to 300 people who responded to
a Bloomberg Green readers’ survey about climate anxiety, just under
one in five said they discuss the issue with a mental health
professional.<br>
<br>
One respondent, Natalie Warren, a 42-year-old UK expat living in
Sydney, Australia, told us that while she isn’t in therapy, she had
felt a strong urge to act. Climate anxiety felt different to a
previous mental health challenge: it is external, rather than
internal, she says.<br>
“There’s nothing wrong with someone who’s suffering from climate
anxiety,” she says. "It’s not them that needs fixing.”<br>
<br>
<b>How Therapists Diagnose and Treat Climate Anxiety</b><br>
So what are therapists actually doing in their treatment rooms? The
first point is they’re not making any diagnoses, as anxiety about
climate change isn’t a disorder. “We consider it much more as an
understandable response to a real and rational danger,” says Patrick
Kennedy-Williams, a clinical psychologist based in Oxford, UK.
Working with someone who has social anxiety or a phobia is partly
about “recalibrating their sense of risk and threats,” he says —
realigning the fear with the actual threat level. That isn’t usually
the case with climate change, he says, because “the threat is real.”<br>
<br>
<b>Also, there’s no “classic case” of climate or eco-anxiety.</b>
Some patients may need to discuss direct experience with climate
impacts, such as a flood or wildfire destroying a home, while others
might, for example, want to talk about their guilt at watching
others suffering, or struggles with friends or family who are
dismissive or hostile. People might not even say they’re feeling
“anxiety,” he says, instead using words like trauma, grief and
depression. “It doesn’t fit neatly into our way of thinking about
mental health,” Kennedy-Williams says, “probably because the climate
crisis and our relationship with the climate crisis is a lot more
multifaceted than that.”<br>
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Climate anxiety often ends up being linked to many other dilemmas in
the normal course of a person’s life, including big choices like
whether or not to have children, where to live or what to do for
work. Many of these questions are already highly stressful and
emotional. The problem of whether or not to have children, in
particular, is one around which Kennedy-Williams has seen “huge
amounts of distress” in the therapy room, he says.<br>
Kennedy-Williams compares his experience with patients struggling
with climate anxiety to working with people struggling with
activity-limiting illnesses or medical difficulties, where clear
solutions aren’t often available.<b> “You can't just say, ‘Actually
I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. I’m sure everything will
be fine,’”</b> he says. Instead, he tries to help patients “thrive
and find joy in difficult circumstances.”<br>
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Some anxieties are linked to specific triggers, which can be
directly addressed and resolved. But climate change is more
wide-ranging. Global warming is also not resolvable by any one
person, so it’s impossible to gain a sense of confidence and control
over the problem. “You can’t personally resolve it,” says Hickman.
“You can go off and do your recycling, and become an activist, or do
X, Y, Z, but it’s a global problem. It's not personal.” Many
patients also feel that those in power are asleep at the wheel,
adding to a sense that no one is in control, she says.<br>
Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of anxiety over climate
change: It can also be linked to climate denial. Experts said the
two can be understood as different manifestations of the same
feeling. “The conspiracy theorists are reassuring,” says Hickman.
“If you can’t tolerate anxiety, you will then spin off into
believing somebody who gives you false promises.”<br>
<br>
Overcoming all of these feelings is key to action actually being
taken to solve the climate crisis. Fear and disempowerment lead
people to turn inward, focusing on self-preservation and
survivalism, rather than the more collective means needed to
actually address climate change as an issue, says Louise Edgington,
a British educational psychologist specializing in climate
psychology, who works primarily in schools.<br>
<br>
“Wellbeing is not just about nice hugs and feeling good,” she says.
“It’s a crucial part of actually making the changes we need to
make.”<br>
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So how to address it? Leslie Davenport, a Washington state-based
therapist, co-developed a course for other professionals seeking
ways to treat patients struggling with climate-related mental health
issues. She highlights two broad types of coping strategies:
internal and external.<br>
She likens climate anxiety to holding a ball under water.
Eventually, your arm will get tired, and it will pop up — it can’t
be suppressed forever. Internal strategies can include learning to
calm your nervous system down, taking conscious breaks and focusing
on your mental narratives. External strategies include finding ways
to take action in whatever way is most appropriate, whether that’s
donating money or joining a local community group for clean air.<br>
<br>
“I’d say as much as half of our climate anxiety has to do with the
feeling of not being efficacious to do something about it,” says
Ray, who is also a professor and chair of environmental studies at
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Doing something
in a group rather than alone can be helpful. “The thing that reduces
the climate anxiety is being part of a collective…where people care
as much as you do. You’re not the only one.”<br>
<br>
Channeling anxiety in this way can turn into serious action.
Opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline and groups like Pacific
Climate Warriors were motivated — in part — by their anxiety to do
something radical, Ray says. It can also motivate others to run for
public office. Warren, the survey respondent from Sydney, who has
two young children and works in finance, ran for and represented the
Greens on her local council between 2017 and 2021.<br>
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One of the many parents who responded to Bloomberg Green’s survey,
Warren says that what drives her now is the inevitable conversation
she will one day have with her boys. When they ask "How did you let
it get so bad?” and “Why weren't people doing anything?" she wants
to have something real to tell them: "I need to be able to tell them
that I tried.”...<br>
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<p><i>[ Yes, important to know]</i><br>
<b>Heatwaves: how hot can it get?</b><br>
The Economist<br>
May 25, 2023<br>
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, more intense and more
deadly. But what is a heatwave, why are they so dangerous and how
are they affected by climate change?<br>
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<blockquote>00:00 - What are heatwaves?<br>
01:40 - How do heatwaves form?<br>
05:28 - How heatwaves kill<br>
08:40 - How to prepare for heatwaves<br>
10:17 - What is the impact of climate change?<br>
</blockquote>
Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3QAawvI">https://econ.st/3QAawvI</a><br>
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Can Kolkata’s street life survive India’s record-breaking heatwaves?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3BufiFh">https://econ.st/3BufiFh</a> <br>
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How to predict record-shattering weather events:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3Og1juG">https://econ.st/3Og1juG</a> <br>
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Cell block hot: how prisoners are facing rising temperatures:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3Ol0QY9">https://econ.st/3Ol0QY9</a> <br>
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Heatwaves and floods around the world may be a taste of years to
come: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3IhJzLz">https://econ.st/3IhJzLz</a> <br>
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Heatwaves kill more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes and floods:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3MxdHoM">https://econ.st/3MxdHoM</a> <br>
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In art, as in life, boundaries blur when a heatwave strikes:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/457QgcC">https://econ.st/457QgcC</a> <br>
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A changing climate is bad news for a continent that doesn’t like
change: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3Myima3">https://econ.st/3Myima3</a> <br>
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July’s heatwave may have killed thousands of Britons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/44ZcJc5">https://econ.st/44ZcJc5</a> <br>
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A rising share of people are exposed to dangerously high
temperatures: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3MvKBWy">https://econ.st/3MvKBWy</a> <br>
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Our hottest hour: sweat, toil, tears and more sweat:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3W7HmYy">https://econ.st/3W7HmYy</a> <br>
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The increase in simultaneous heatwaves: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3IfYpSI">https://econ.st/3IfYpSI</a> <br>
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Some don’t like it hot: melting roads, raging wildfires and an
energy crunch: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3MukorE">https://econ.st/3MukorE</a> <br>
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Heat and humidity are putting millions of Indians in peril:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/41BQsy4">https://econ.st/41BQsy4</a> <br>
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How can India cope with heatwaves?: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3o0HlcC">https://econ.st/3o0HlcC</a> <br>
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Parts of Antarctica have been 40°C warmer than their March average:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/42GSKNK">https://econ.st/42GSKNK</a> <br>
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Debate over air conditioning in American prisons will heat up:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3W8w9Hi">https://econ.st/3W8w9Hi</a> <br>
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Watch the first episode in our ‘Weather Essentials’ series:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/40OkEW6">https://econ.st/40OkEW6</a> <br>
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Watch the second episode in our ‘Weather Essentials’ series:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://econ.st/3ByYld3">https://econ.st/3ByYld3</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNrtArLJJw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTNrtArLJJw</a>
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<i>[ political discussions ]</i><br>
<b>Is this the end of the current world order? | Fiona Hill, Michael
Clarke, Peter Hitchens, and more!</b><br>
The Institute of Art and Ideas<br>
Western sanctions: a sign of lasting unity? | Michael Clarke<br>
Jun 29, 2023 #RussiaUkraineWar<br>
Fiona Hill, Michael Clarke, Peter Hitchens and Malcolm Rifkind
discuss Western moral authority, foreign policy, diplomatic
sanctions and how the Russia-Ukraine war is ending the world order
as we know it. <br>
<blockquote>00:00 Introduction <br>
00:37 Has the West lost its moral authority? | Fiona Hill<br>
04:22 How is the war in Ukraine reverberating on Chinese foreign
policy | Malcolm Rifkind <br>
07:54 Western sanctions: a sign of lasting unity? | Michael Clarke
<br>
12:10 Is there a future for Western intervention in global
politics? | Peter Hitchens <br>
</blockquote>
Is Western hegemony over? Watch our latest debate on the future of
the new global order at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iai.tv/video/new-powers-and-fading-forces">https://iai.tv/video/new-powers-and-fading-forces</a><br>
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#GlobalWorldOrder #RussiaUkraineWar #WesternIntervention<br>
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The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from
cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the
world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy,
aesthetics to genetics.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkgrFe52jOg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkgrFe52jOg</a>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - when did the
GOP go astray? ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>February 21, 2010</b></i></font>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri"> </font> February 21, 2010:
Minnesota Governor/one-time cap-and-trade supporter/alleged
moderate Republican Tim Pawlenty morphs into a climate-change
denier on NBC's "Meet the Press."<br>
Tim Pawlenty appeared with Janet Napolitano, then the Democratic
governor of Arizona, in a nationwide radio ad criticizing Congress
for not addressing climate change. On NBC's Meet the Press last
month, Pawlenty, considered a likely presidential hopeful in 2012,
said, "Cap-and-trade ... would be a disaster."Mar 25, 2010 [ taken
down, this event lead to a discovery of important transition
moment described below ]<br>
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<b>How Republicans Learned To Reject Climate Change - NPR</b><br>
MARCH 25, 20107<br>
By Alan Greenblatt<br>
As climate change emerged as a top issue on the national scene a few
years ago, it had one unusual quality: The response to it showed
surprising signs of bipartisan support.<br>
<br>
Two or three years ago, Republicans such as Sen. John McCain and
Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlie Crist played nearly as
prominent a role as Al Gore in advocating a robust regulatory
response.<br>
<br>
No more. Climate hasn't yet become as partisan an issue as, say,
health care and taxes. But it's getting there.<br>
<br>
<b>Growing Partisan Divide</b><br>
Some Republicans who advocated tough environmental measures are
leaving the scene, such as Schwarzenegger, who signed a landmark
California law capping carbon emissions in 2006 but is term-limited
out of office as governor this year.<br>
Others have switched their positions, advocating more of a market
response and shying away from strict governmental controls. That's
especially true of Republicans reaching for higher office —
including the presidency.<br>
Insisting on caps on energy usage has become something of a
nonstarter for GOP candidates. The public in general is growing more
skeptical about climate change, but a recent Gallup poll showed that
more than twice as many Republicans as Democrats say the seriousness
of global warming is "greatly exaggerated."<br>
<br>
"You see growing sentiment that climate change has been
exaggerated," says Karlyn Bowman, a polling expert at the American
Enterprise Institute.<br>
<br>
Still, she adds, she is struck by the growing partisan divide on the
issue.<br>
<br>
"The Republican-Democrat and conservative-liberal differences are
quite large," Bowman says.<br>
<br>
<b>Skepticism: Practically The Party Line?</b><br>
"Republicans tend to be the party of limited government," says James
M. Taylor, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, a
conservative think tank in Chicago. That makes them more skeptical
of energy policies that he says will cost average households a good
deal of money.<br>
<br>
Opposition to cap-and-trade legislation nearly became official
Republican Party dogma. It was one of 10 items on a list some
members of the Republican National Committee wanted candidates to be
required to take a stand on. They would only receive party backing
if they agreed to at least eight.<br>
<br>
The RNC rejected the idea of a purity test in January. But party
candidates have needed no such official sanction to express their
disapproval to cap-and-trade.<br>
<br>
Sarah Palin has always expressed skepticism that climate change was
man-made, but as governor of Alaska, she thought her state should
prepare for its effects.<br>
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"The point is, it's real, we need to do something about it," she
said in an interview during her vice presidential run in 2008.<br>
<br>
Last December, she tweeted that climate science was "bogus."<br>
<br>
Two years ago, Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty appeared with
Janet Napolitano, then the Democratic governor of Arizona, in a
nationwide radio ad criticizing Congress for not addressing climate
change. On NBC's Meet the Press last month, Pawlenty, considered a
likely presidential hopeful in 2012, said, "Cap-and-trade ... would
be a disaster."<br>
<br>
"With Tim Pawlenty, I guess he sees that there's a need to talk
about climate change in a more skeptical frame to make himself more
appealing in a Republican primary," says Jim DiPeso, vice president
for policy and communications at Republicans for Environmental
Protection.<br>
<br>
<b>Changes Of Heart</b><br>
Climate change has turned into a point of attack in several GOP
Senate primary races this year. In Arizona, former Rep. J.D.
Hayworth has frequently castigated McCain for his past
climate-change efforts. McCain has been keeping mum on the issue of
late, both at home and in Washington.<br>
<br>
Other GOP politicians seem to have experienced their own changes of
heart. As a state senator, Scott Brown voted two years ago in
support of Massachusetts participating in the Regional Greenhouse
Gas Initiative, the Northeast's regional cap-and-trade program.<br>
<br>
During his successful campaign for the U.S. Senate this winter,
however, Brown expressed doubts about the science underpinning
global warming theories. He explained his new position by saying
that RGGI hadn't worked.<br>
<br>
Similarly, Marco Rubio, as speaker of the Florida House, declared in
2007 that "this nation — and ultimately the world — is headed toward
emission caps." He backed the idea of creating a state cap-and-trade
program the following year.<br>
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In his current campaign for the U.S. Senate, though, Rubio has
blasted Crist, his primary opponent, for having pushed the
cap-and-trade idea. Last month, Rubio said that he doesn't believe
the scientific evidence for human-influenced climate change.<br>
<br>
<b>Money Talks</b><br>
It's true that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham continues negotiating
with Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry and independent Joseph
Lieberman of Connecticut in hopes of crafting a climate change bill,
which will very likely be released next month. But Graham has
attracted no other Republicans who support the effort publicly and
has been widely castigated back home in South Carolina. The
Charleston County GOP passed a resolution condemning Graham for
undermining "Republican leadership and party solidarity for his own
benefit."<br>
<br>
This leads straight to the chicken and egg question. Are many
Republican leaders growing more skeptical about climate legislation
owing to concerns raised by their political base? Or are GOP voters
following a shift among top officials and conservative media?<br>
<br>
"Many ordinary citizens take their cues on complex political issues
from leaders of the political party that they identify with," says
DiPeso, from the GOP environmental group.<br>
<br>
But Daniel J. Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy
at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which is a
Democratic organization, says that it's public opinion that is
leading the leaders in this case.<br>
<br>
He cites the frequent attacks against global warming efforts
launched by Rush Limbaugh and commentators on Fox News Channel.
"That has really riled up their highly conservative base," Weiss
says.<br>
<br>
He also notes that elected officials are well aware of the
opposition to congressional climate change legislation led by energy
companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — a group that has
already announced it will spend $50 million seeking to influence
this year's elections.<br>
<br>
"If you're a Republican, would you really stand up to them and risk
getting on their wrong side," Weiss says, "when they have so much
money to spend?"<br>
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