Climate Change Risk for LGBT People in the United States
April 2024
Using U.S. Census data and climate risk assessment data from NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), this study provides a geographic analysis to assess the climate risk impacting same-sex couples.

AUTHORS
Lindsay Mahowald
Research Data Analyst
Ari Shaw
Senior Fellow & Director of International Programs
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Highlights
LGBT people in same-sex couple households disproportionately live in coastal areas and cities.

LGBT people are more likely to live in areas with poor infrastructure, worse-built environments, and fewer resources.

Counties with a higher proportion of same-sex couples are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.
Report

Executive Summary

Climate change represents a global challenge, but it also exacerbates existing disparities among individuals and communities. LGBT people face discrimination and exclusion, creating unique vulnerabilities that compound and heighten their exposure to climate-related harms. This report provides some of the first empirical documentation as to how LGBT people differentially experience the negative effects of climate change compared to non-LGBT people. Using U.S. Census data and climate risk assessment data from NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), we conducted a geographic analysis to assess the climate risk impacting same-sex couples.

 
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/climate-change-risk-lgbt/

Young adults losing the climate faith in the US, and only one third of voters think the IPCC experts are right
By Jo Nova

Good news: despite 2023 being the hottest year since Homo Erectus, there was a 17% fall in the number of 18 to 34 year olds who call “Climate change”  a very serious problem. Even though there were hottest-ever-headlines month after month, the punters lost the faith.

No one is cracking champagne, because 50% of young adults still tell pollsters they think it is a “very serious problem”. But when all is said and done, at least half the generation that was drip-fed the dogma since kindergarten, can not only see through the catastrophism but they are brave enough to tell a pollster that too.

For the most part, after a few hot El Nino years, “climate fear” is back where it was in 2016 or so. Most people still want the government to solve the weather with someone else’s money. But where younger people were once much more enthusiastic about a Big Government fix than older people were, now that gap is almost closed. What was a 21% difference between those age groups is now only 2%. That’s a whopping fall in faith in the government to do something useful, or probably, a recognition that whatever the government does, it will cost too much.

Looks like young adults are learning to be cynical adults faster?

The Monmouth university group polled 804 people in late April:

Climate Change Concerns Dip:  Younger adults express less urgency than in prior polls
The percentage of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 who see climate change as a very serious problem has fallen by 17 points in the past three years (50%, down from 67% in 2021), compared with smaller declines among those who are 35 to 54 years old (44%, down from 48%) and those age 55 and older (44%, down from 54%).

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=young-adults-losing-the-climate-faith-in-the-us-and-only-one-third-of-voters-think-the-ipcc-experts-are-right

GOP bill to keep Biden's 'hands off' Americans' home appliances passes House
House Republicans at war with President Biden's green energy policies
By Elizabeth Elkind Fox News
Published May 7, 2024 5:06pm EDT | Updated May 7, 2024 5:56pm EDT
 
Former Obama economic adviser Robert Wolf and former Trump campaign economic adviser Steve Moore join "America Reports" to discuss rising energy costs and President Biden’s green energy push.

Democrats and Republicans banded together to pass a bill on Tuesday aimed at blocking the Biden administration from banning everyday home appliances that run on natural gas.

The Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act, which passed 212 to 195, is one facet of a sweeping bill targeting the Department of Energy (DOE) introduced by Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

Seven Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which received no Republican dissent.


The bill would force the DOE to consider the cost-effectiveness of any new policy standards, including how any updates affecting home appliances would hit low-income families, and would mandate that the department factor in the full-life cycle costs of those appliances before issuing new guidance.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-bill-keep-bidens-hands-off-americans-home-appliances-passes-house

Cooling Concerns: The Shifting Climate Of Public Opinion On Global Warming
by Dr. Matthew Wielicki  3 hours ago 

A recent Monmouth University poll highlights a decline in the American public’s sense of urgency about climate change, especially among younger adults. [emphasis, links added]

While 73% still believe climate change is happening, less than half now see it as a very serious problem.


This decline is most pronounced among the younger demographic, with only 50% of 18 to 34-year-olds viewing it as a very serious issue, down from 67% in 2021.

This shift could show a growing skepticism and a reprioritization of immediate concerns such as economic pressures.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/cooling-concerns-the-shifting-climate-of-public-opinion-on-global-warming/

Tipping Point?
21 hours ago Guest Blogger 76 Comments

by Kirby Schlaht

Many climate catastrophists claim that only a few more degrees in temperature or a few parts per million of a greenhouse gas might push our planet over the edge into a devastating hothouse environment with warming oceans, melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and more violent storms. Are tipping points unprecedented in paleoclimate history with rapid temperature changes leading to extreme warming or cooling climates? Let’s look at some paleoclimate data for ourselves.

Fossil foraminifera can be used to identify the conditions in which the enclosing sediments accumulated. We can use the oxygen-18 ratios to recognize glacial and warm episodes during the current Ice Age. We know that during the last million years of the Late Pleistocene Ice Age the planet has continued to cool initiating a glacial-interglacial period of around 100 thousand years. The Milankovitch 100k year orbital Eccentricity cycle appears to modulate this longer period. Over the previous 2 million years of the early Pleistocene the planet was warmer with the glacial-interglacial period a steady 40 thousand years seemingly driven by the 40k year Obliquity cycle.


High resolution paleoclimate proxy records from Greenland ice cores (Boers, 2018) show that the last 120-thousand-year glacial interval was punctuated by abrupt climatic transitions called Dansgaard–Oeschger (D-O) events. These events are characterized by rapid temperature increases over Greenland of up to 15 deg C within a few decades. The course of a D-O event starts with an abrupt warming, followed by a cooling period lasting a few hundred years where temperatures eventually return to the normal cold of the glacial period. The cause of these transitions remains unclear. However, these transitions may be influenced by amplification of cyclic solar forcings,

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/07/tipping-point/