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<\/p>\nNow 99% agree.<\/p>\n
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NPR, 20 Oct 21: Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make it worse<\/a><\/p>\n There is an economic tension between continual growth, and how that growth might ruin the planet. This has been understood for at least 40 years, but many, especially short-term focused conservatives, refuse to believe it, or ignore it in favor of their short-term interests.<\/p>\n A new report<\/a> from the medical journal The Lancet<\/em> finds that human-caused climate change is worsening human health in just about every measurable way, and world leaders are missing an opportunity to address it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Guardian, 19 Oct 21: \u2018Case closed\u2019: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans<\/a>, subtitled, “Trawl of 90,000 studies finds consensus, leading to call for Facebook and Twitter to curb disinformation”<\/p>\n A previous survey in 2013 showed 97% of studies published between 1991 and 2012 supported the idea that human activities are altering Earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n This has been updated and expanded by the study by Cornell University<\/a> that shows the tiny minority of sceptical voices has diminished to almost nothing as evidence mounts of the link between fossil-fuel burning and climate disruption.<\/p>\n …\u201cIt is really case closed. There is nobody of significance in the scientific community who doubts human-caused climate change,\u201d said the lead author, Mark Lynas, a visiting fellow at Cornell University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Except Republicans. And even some Democrats, when they have vested interests in the causes of climate change. (And who are the 1% of scientists who *don’t* agree that climate change is caused by humans? I’d guess a few who have vested interests in the status quo, and a few who refuse to understand the question.)<\/p>\n Paul Krugman, NYT, 18 Oct 21: Joe Manchin Versus West Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Krugman describes two problems with Manchin’s position. First, it’s obsolete.<\/p>\n \nThere was indeed a time when the West Virginia economy ran on coal. Back in 1982, when Joe Manchin began his political career<\/a> as a member of the State Legislature, wages and benefits paid to coal miners accounted for 16 percent<\/a> of the state\u2019s total labor income. But the industry\u2019s payroll shrank rapidly during the Reagan and Bush I administrations, falling to around 7 percent of compensation by the mid-1990s. It has declined even more since then, but basically West Virginia stopped being coal country a generation ago.<\/p>\n Oh, and the small industry that remains is on its way out, whether or not we get an effective climate policy; given dramatic technological progress in renewable energy<\/a>, coal just isn\u2019t competitive anymore.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Second, it’s selfish.<\/p>\n \nSo what is Joe Manchin thinking? Some people say we should just follow the money \u2014 the large campaign contributions<\/a> he gets from the fossil fuel industry, his personal financial stake<\/a> in the coal industry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Krugman gives him the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n \nBut the most cynical takes on politicians\u2019 behavior aren\u2019t always right. I\u2019d like to hope that Manchin is sincere \u2014 that he actually believes that he\u2019s protecting his state\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n The problem is that he seems to have a decades-out-of-date vision of what his state needs. And that distorted vision is now endangering America\u2019s future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now 99% agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12448"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12456,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12448\/revisions\/12456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}