The Virginia Clean Economy Act is pointless and reckless virtue signaling. It will accomplish nothing nothing, while having many negative effects on the people of Virginia. It needs to be repealed under the incoming administration.
via Real Climate Science
January 5, 2022 at 08:49PM
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Researchers from Austria and the UK are excited that an experiment in Innsbruck, Austria successfully used children to manipulated adults, pressuring raised parent participation in green charitable giving.
Climate change: Children push parents to be more conscious about global warming, research finds
Parents chose to invest more cash in a forestry scheme rather than keep it for themselves, when they were being observed by their offspring
By Sally Guyoncourt January 4, 2022 7:00 pm(Updated 7:13 pm)
Children are the driving force for a more climate-conscious future, researchers have discovered – with parents proving to be more environmentally aware in the presence of the younger generation.
A study carried out in Innsbruck, Austria, in partnership with the University of Exeter, looked at what motivated “voluntary climate action” across the generations, focusing on parents and children.
The overwhelming conclusion was that children pushed parents to think of the future and their environmental responsibilities.
Oliver Hauser, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter Business School, and co-author of the study, said: “When their own children are present during this decision, parents are reminded of their responsibility to their children and the benefits of investing into their future.”
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The abstract of the study;
Open Access
Climate Action for (My) Children
Helena Fornwagner & Oliver P. Hauser
Environmental and Resource Economics volume 81, pages 95–130 (2022)Abstract
How do we motivate cooperation across the generations—between parents and children? Here we study voluntary climate action (VCA), which is costly to today’s decision-makers but essential to enable sustainable living for future generations. We predict that “offspring observability” is critical: parents will be more likely to invest in VCA when their own offspring observes their action, whereas when adults or genetically unrelated children observe them, the effect will be smaller. In a large-scale lab-in-the-field experiment, we observe a remarkable magnitude of VCA: parents invest 82% of their 69€ endowment into VCA, resulting in almost 14,000 real trees being planted. Parents’ VCA varies across conditions, with the largest treatment effect occurring when a parent’s own child is the observer. In subgroup analyses, we find that larger treatment effects occur among parents with a high school diploma. Moreover, VCA for parents who believe in climate change is most affected by the presence of their own child. In contrast, VCA of climate change skeptical parents is most influenced by the presence of children to whom they are not related. Our findings have implications for policy-makers interested in designing programs to encourage voluntary climate action and sustaining intergenerational public goods.
Read more: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-021-00620-7
The activism in this case was pretty weak, parents were given €69, presented with information about climate change, then asked how much they wanted to pocket vs how much they wanted to give towards planting trees. Researchers were excited the parents chose to give more when their own children watched them make their decision.
I personally find such manipulation of children utterly repulsive, even in a experimental context.
Children are vulnerable, their critical thinking skills are immature. They have not had the real life experience to reject climate disaster messages and other nonsensical claims.
I’m sure the researchers thought they were doing the right thing, and for what its worth, I don’t think their experiment did any lasting harm. But I find the context of the experiment deeply disturbing. Deliberately targeting children, experimenting to see whether children could help with emotional manipulation of parents, this kind of thing makes my blood run cold.
via Watts Up With That?
January 5, 2022 at 08:03PM
January 5, 2022 By jennifer
It has been an exciting start to the year where I live, because the highest astronomical tide was forecast for 3rd January and there was a cyclone tracking towards us.
On the highest tide each year, I wonder if the waves will reach to the wave cut notch at the bottom of the cliff face, below Boiling Pot Lookout in Noosa National Park that is about halfway down the east coast of Australia, just near where I live.
I have been going around and standing there on the lower platform (Platform 1) for some years at the time of the highest tide. These tides are in summer in the Southern Hemisphere because that is when the Sun is closest to the Earth, and they usually correspond with a New Moon or Full Moon.
This year, on the day of the forecast highest astronomical tide (Monday 3rd January 2022), Noosa was mentioned on the front page of the national newspaper – the story was about the huge swells: up to 4 metres high from ex-cyclone Seth lingering just offshore.
Was this the year I was going to be washed from the wavecut platform at the bottom of the cliff face on the highest tide?
The sea begins at the land’s edge. Where the sea begins is the sea level – and there is concern that sea levels are rising.
But this platform must be a relic from a time of higher sea levels because even this year with a low pressure system off-shore that raised sea levels, and with the La Nina that further raised sea levels, sea-level didn’t reach the wave cut notch.
These platforms form just below sea level, in the intertidal zone, where the cutting action of waves will bring down great lumps of rock from above. The debris is removed by the wash, beyond the intertidal zone; the headland recedes landward; the sea eats into the cliff-face; and so, cliffs are formed, with wave-cut platforms at their base.
This platform below Boiling Point Lookout, that I have stood on in past years: it is so wide.
When was it formed? How long were sea levels at that height – how long does it take to erode a cliff face to that width?
This year the waves, on the biggest swells, at the time of the high tide, they hit the cliff face!
Not the sea level, but the swells.
And yet I wasn’t washed away. Because I wasn’t on the platform!
But my friend Jared was there, and he was not washed away. You can see him in the drone footage that I have taken – so much footage that now needs editing – that shows the largest swells including as they hit the cliff face the day before (2nd January) with Cyclone Seth just offshore, and the next day (3rd January) which was highest tide day for the year.
I was flying my drone (the wonderful Skido) from a ledge beyond the platform into the winds and out to sea so I could get the feature image looking back at the cliff face at the time of the highest astronomical tide, as shown in the feature image at the top of this blog post.
This year I dared not venture below the cliff face at the time of the highest tide, but Jared did – and he was not washed away. You will see him in the short film that I hope to make about this cliff face and climate change. To be sure to know when it is uploaded to the internet or ready for showing in the wonderful local Pomona Theatre subscribe for my monthly e-newsletters.
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January 5, 2022 at 04:22PM
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January 5, 2022 at 03:53PM
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