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Madeleine Para: Good morning, or good afternoon or wherever you are welcome to the national CCL meeting i'm your Executive Director Madeline parrot and your host today.

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Madeleine Para: For the first time we're offering American sign language interpretation during this meeting so great big welcome to our interpreters Sharon and Sarah.

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Madeleine Para: I also want to thank all of you who made monthly pledges this month as part of our march fundraiser and a pet and global policy more later.

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Madeleine Para: Today we'll hear from Dr Jennifer Carmen at the Yale project on climate change communications will save her what you've been doing in the last month go over our actions for this month and talk about how the invasion of Ukraine impacts our.

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Madeleine Para: Registration for the June 11 to 13th national conference is just open, thank you very much to all the staff that worked so hard on.

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Madeleine Para: So I guess this month this back to Jennifer Carmen she's a postdoctoral associate with the Yale program on climate change, communications and her research focuses on identifying and supporting behaviors that individuals and communities can take.

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Madeleine Para: To adaptable short and long term climate change impacts.

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Madeleine Para: them for, first I want to tell you just a little bit about the people that you're speaking to and then we'll turn things right over here.

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Madeleine Para: So the folks on this call, they are the alarmed and active and they're going to use what you teach us today in their lobbying in their media work and presentations and in conversations, wherever they are.

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Madeleine Para: They are the people who show up they show up to help with the word educate themselves and others have to support each other in hard times.

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Madeleine Para: If you were speaking to them live, you would see them huddled in the hallway at the hotel making plans, then after your talk, they would gather around you to ask more questions for as long as you would stay.

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Madeleine Para: You would see how they make every new person feel welcome to the work in the organization.

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Madeleine Para: These are people who are so committed to solving climate problem but they're often doing things outside their comfort zone I love being with them, I love being with you.

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Madeleine Para: Soon i'm going to be pairing at the doing conference registration list to see who I can look forward to seeing or maybe that hugging after three years away from our big June event and i'm looking forward to meeting people that i've only seen on to.

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Madeleine Para: So Jennifer Thank you so much for making time to talk with us today about the work being done by the Yale project on climate change, communications, we have terrace that worked for so long i'll turn it over to you.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Great Thank you so much, and thank you so much for having me here okay i'm gonna work on sharing my screen and hopefully this is what's that.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): I will work on the button to share and hopefully this will work let's make sure that this isn't working i'm.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Not sharing my screen okay let's just share this and hmm can I.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Alright, so you're seeing the first slide my presentation is that right.

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Madeleine Para: Yes, we are.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Okay, stop share with me because I want to make sure that this is sharing properly on you.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): corner alright, so are you seeing the my notes are you seeing the proper presentation.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Stop this i'm so sorry about this Oh, my goodness, this is like the.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The the worst case scenario, has been resolved great so thank you so much for having me here today, my name is Jennifer Carmen as madeline's admin and i'm a.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): postdoctoral associate at the program on climate change communication very excited to be here and to talk to you about building support for Climate Action in the United States.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And, before I get started, I want to give you a little bit about myself, I have been at why people see since September of 2020.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But before working there, I was a lot, I was a big fan of their work and had been following them for the better, part of a decade, even before I started Grad school and since I have a PhD That was a long time ago.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so my own background is in conducting survey research for evaluations of energy conservation behavior programs run by utilities in the US and I went to Grad school to study.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Environmental communication and education methods to probe to promote action on climate.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, at white T triple C i'm part of the survey research team and I work with them on data collection efforts in the US and internationally, including the climate change in the American mind study also called see cam.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, to give you an overview of what i'll be talking about today, first, I will be going through some of our recent findings on Americans attitudes towards climate change.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And then I will be talking about some of the communication tools and resources that we've developed to share this data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And then finally i'll go through some key lessons about communicating climate that we've developed based on research and then i'll open it up for questions.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So here i'll share some latest research from our national study climate change in the American mind.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And many of you may be familiar with this it's been running since 2008 in partnership with George mason university and it collects data twice a year from a representative sample of the American public collecting information on their attitudes toward climate change.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so many of you also may be familiar with global warming six Americas, which we identify from this research, but for those of you who aren't.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): wiping triple c's research has identified six different audiences for climate change messaging in the US.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And they are on a spectrum of people who have the highest belief in global warming.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Or the most concerned and they're the most motivated to act on it to the people who have the lowest believe in global warming or least concerned and least motivated to act.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, these are those six audiences with Madeline referred to in her opening opening the alarm to where the people who are most worried think that it will impact them personally most.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Most movement motivated to act and, as she mentioned a lot of you, I think, fall into this category, as do I.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so the concerned, people who are worried, but not as much as the alarms.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The cautious people who think that climate change is happening, but not necessarily that will it will affect them personally.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The disengaged people who don't have much of an opinion, one way or the other about the issue.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The doubtful people who are on the fence on weather climate change is really happening and the dismissive who are the sort of classic like deniers that people who think that global warming is a hoax etc, but as not only mentioned or Madeline mentioned in the opening mentioned that.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Most people in the US fallen to the alarm in the concerned that about 60% of the Americans have fell into these categories and our most recent data collection.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And one in three Americans in fact falls into the alarm and is now the largest group.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this and we've also found that the alarm has been a growing audience over time.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this chart shows the trends in the sizes of the six America is in the faster than the last five years of data collection that we've done.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this shows that the alarm segment has grown by 15 percentage points since 2017 in the last five years, while the dismissive and every other segment has stayed the same or shrink in size.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so overall What this shows is that Americans are becoming more worried about global warming more engaged with the issue and more supportive of climate solutions.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And we've also found from more recent research is that many of the alarms are active on climate and so about one in three.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): People who are alarmed are in this active group, which means that they're participating or highly willing willing to participate in political actions to address climate change.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so what this translates to mathematically is about one in 10 Americans really want to be involved on climate action.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): and, moreover, about half of the as along are willing to engage in these actions and we found from our research that one of the big barriers that prevents people is that no one has asked and so these represent really important opportunities for engagement.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this growth in the alarm is also translating into more specific support for action in the US and in fact we found that support for federal action on global warming increased in 2021.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this chart here shows the percentage of registered voters in the US, who think that global warming, should be a priority for the President and Congress.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And why P triple C has been tracking this question since 2008 as long as we've been running this study.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this chart also shows the breakdown and support by political ideology and so at the top in the dark blue is Liberal Democrats, the next line down is moderate and conservative democrats.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And then, liberal and moderate Republicans, and then Conservative Republicans.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And the overall trend lines here, show that since 2014 there's been a steady increase in support for Climate Action among democrats, but what this.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): also shows is that in September of 2021 which you can see, on the far right of the chart and is our most recent data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Support for federal action on global warming increased for all of these groups and especially for liberally moderate Republicans were support with 10 percentage points higher than was in the spring of 21.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): We also found that most registered voters support many climate friendly energy policies, and this chart here breaks down support for specific policies that we measured in September of 2021.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And like on the previous chart Liberal Democrat certain dark blue moderate and conservative democrats are in light blue liberal moderate Republicans aren't pink and conservative Republicans aren't dark red.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And the black diamond represents registered voters, overall, and so there are some patterns here that you can see in this support.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Some policies have pretty strong bipartisan support, including majority support from conservative Republicans.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And these include policies like providing tax incentives or rebates to Homeowners landlords and businesses to make existing buildings more energy efficient.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Funding more research into renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, providing tax rebates for people who purchase energy efficient vehicles or solar panels.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): and providing tax rebates or incentives to Homeowners landlords and businesses to purchase appliances that can be powered without burning fossil fuels, so what like electrification policies.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And there are some policies that have more divided support, and these are tend to be the ones that are more ambitious.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And these include things like transitioning the US economy, including electric utilities transportation buildings and industry from fossil fuels to 100% clean energy by 2050.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Increasing federal funding to low income communities and communities of color who are disproportionately harmed by air and water pollution.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax and use the money to reduce other taxes that just income tax by an equal amount.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So this is probably one that's familiar, especially to this audience.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And one thing to note is that the wording is close to, but not exactly the same as the energy innovation and carbon dividend act.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The reason for that is to keep the wording relatively short and also to track it over time, but, as you can, but I think this is as close as like this is close wording that we have here.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, but the fourth one is to require electric utilities to produce 100% of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energy resources by the year 2035.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Another pattern that emerges here that's that's notable is that while Republicans are pretty divided in their support for Climate Action and their support varies across these policies.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Democrats aren't really even among moderate and conservative democrat support for all of these measures is that about 80% or higher.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this suggests that democratic constituents in these in particular are supportive of taking on a pretty ambitious to meet of actions to address climate change.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so Those are some of our recent key findings regarding political support for Climate Action in the US and, overall, this shows that they're really major opportunities for Climate Action right now.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But one of my wifey triple c's Oregon priorities as an organization is helping people like you in the climate.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): use our data to take advantage of these opportunities and so we've developed several communication tools and resources to do just that.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so here i'm going to shift to talking about some of those tools and resources and how you can use them.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): One of these really important resources is the Yale climate opinion maps which show how Americans climate change beliefs.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Risk perceptions and policy support very at the state Congressional district metro area and county levels.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And these percentages are based on aggregated results from the climate change in the American blind study and are updated every year.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, this most recent update, which includes 2021 data was actually published just two weeks ago, so this is very hot off the presses.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And these maps show public opinion on a range of matters, but here i'll focus specifically on the percentage of adults who support a revenue neutral carbon tax on fossil fuel companies.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so here, you can see, the distribution of support at the county level and yellows and oranges show we're more than half of people supported carbon tax and blues show were less than half of people supported.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this tool also allows you to look at specific county level estimates to and look at how they compare to the national average so, for example in Dallas county, which is an urban area.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The support for that for a carbon tax, is it 71% which is five percentage points higher than the national average.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And altitude county Florida, which is where the University of Florida is the levels of support are similar.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But you can also see looking at this, is that, even in more conservative areas of the US they're still pretty substantial proportions of people who support a revenue neutral carbon tax.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, for example in yavapai county Arizona, which is the most conservative county in Arizona historically.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Support is it 54% so lower than the national average but still about half of people and in moffett county Colorado, which is also a conservative area of Colorado support is it 43%.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And what's notable about this map is that it can identify places where supports high, such as Dallas and knowledge, you have counties.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But even in places with lower support and more conservative, the proportion of popular, the proportion of people who support it is still quite high.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): it's not zero it's not even close and so this shows places where the people, even if they are activated and organized they can still form the basis for an effective movement.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Another tool that we offer is a fact sheets tool which lets you create a customized one page summary of public opinion on a range of questions for a specific location.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this basically takes all the data from the maps that I just showed you and summarizes them for either a state or county or Congressional district.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And these have just been updated also with data from 2021.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this is an example of generated from off at county Colorado which I just showed you on the county I just showed you on the previous slide.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this includes data for the county but some comparisons to the state at large.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, why won't the county is pretty conservative.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): These graphs here, show that, even in moffett county most residents proceed some risks from climate change and support some policies to address it.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So, for example, most people in Moffat county think that global warming is going to harm future generations and harm people in developing countries and people in the United States.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): They also support funding research into renewable energy sources.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Providing tax rebates for energy efficient vehicles are solar panels and even regulating CO2 as a potent and also majority of people in called thing Moffat county Colorado think so.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): down here, you can see that they support that 57% think that's think that citizens should do more, and the corporations, who should do more to address global warming, and so, once again, even for and.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): You can see that there are substantial basis of support there.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And even on measures where supporters aren't a majority there's still a substantial proportion of the population, so 39% of people, for example, think that climate change or will harm them personally.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And that's not a zero that's not a zero percent of the population, so that's important to keep in mind as well.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so the purpose of this tool is to really give you key information that you need about public opinion on global warming and your location, so one thing that.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): I want to share is, how can you find this tool so here is a qr code that you can use to look at on your phone right now, if you want guys share this realizing that people may be doing that now.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): That can take you directly to our website and as well as our bitly link bit Ly slash climate opinion facts which will take you directly to the tool that you can do.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And I also this also has been updated with data for 2021 based on the the climate opinion maps data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, once you go there, you can pick out what location, you want to focus on and which questions you want to show.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So you can customize all of these and there's also a button there that allows you to produce these fact sheets and Spanish.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And once you hit generate fact sheet it'll produce what you see on the left hand side of the screen here.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so what's also notable as that really This is designed to be shared, so there are a little button up here that show where you can output results to a printable PDF or.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): or tweet them on social media or share them on social media and and create URLs to paste them wherever you want to put them, so this is definitely a tool to like play with and share and I definitely invite you to do that.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, both of these tools are available for free on our website and to find them you go to our website, which is climate change.yale.edu.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And you just go to our visualizations and data and all visualizations and data, and it will take you right there.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And we also offer many other tools in such as the what's called the sassy tool which is a six six america's super short survey.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): which lets individuals determine which of the six america's they fall into to answer a few questions.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But it can also help organizations figure out the distribution of the six Americas in their audiences and there are many, many other tools there as well.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, now that i've gone through the details of some of our recent findings and or tools to help you use our research.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): This map shows that 40% of Americans live in counties that experienced a climate disaster last year, and so you may be in one of them, I am.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And this campaign targeted Republicans and relied on trusted messenger is like the person who's pictured here, who is retired air force general RON keys.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, in summary, Americans are becoming increasingly alarmed about climate change and happened over the past several years.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And next most Americans support actions to address climate change, including a wide range of potential.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So, but that that concludes my main remarks Thank you all again so much for having me and for bearing with those technical issues at the beginning.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And thank you to our research partners at George mason university and our funders for make this work possible.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And finally, thank you all for the work that you do I think it's so incredibly important and i'm very honored to be here today, so thank you again, and with that I will turn it over for questions.

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Flannery Winchester, Sr. Director of Communications: All right, thank you, Dr Carmen.

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Flannery Winchester, Sr. Director of Communications: So we have a lot of questions in the chat where people are wondering about the methodology, so can you just talk about the sample size, how you get such granularity in the maps, how do you guys go about conducting the survey and translating it into this data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Sure, so there are there are two different methods sort of at play here, so one is the method that we use for data collection, for the climate change in the American mind study.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And for that we use the ipsos knowledge panel and we collect about we collect data from about 1000 people per wave.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): And so, each and so that's about an each wave of data collection, meaning like September of 2021 is one way of March of 2021 is one wave so it's about 2000 people per year and over all of the waves that we've collected, I think that the upcoming like I think the most recent one was like.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): But we also aggregate it over time, and so the yellow climate opinion maps are an analysis of that data based on the aggregated data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): I there's a whole methods paper about it that I don't want to get too much into the details about but it uses it uses that data and aggregates it over time to conduct and analysis predicting the distribution of like the trend.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): Of all sorts of geographic and demographic data, and so it creates estimates of how these will be distributed, but it also got gets updated every time we get not well every year, so every time we have two waves of data.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): The data from the data collection gets put into those maps can agree.

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Madeleine Para: think we can do, one or two maybe questions and everybody should know that there's lots of links in the chat so you can also go to the source.

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Flannery Winchester, Sr. Director of Communications: Okay, well, I will ask one more so, we had a few questions on the patterns of support for climate action such as a you know, a dip in the early 2010s maybe a peak in 2021 can you speak to anything that you have learned from the data about those peaks and valleys and maybe one meal.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): That the dip in 2020 or 2010 was something that happens across the board, like on a lot of climate change attitude and policy support indicators, not just the one that I showed here, there was just.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): So it led to like overall decreases in support in the American public, I think, in part because people were really engaging with climate change at that time, in a way that they hadn't been before which and.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): they're like this is something we've been talking about a lot on on our side, is why we think this is happening, and there are all sorts of reasons.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): One is probably because of efforts of organizations like yours to really push this in the national conversation, and also, I think people are.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): are experiencing climate change in a way that they haven't one thing we ask other questions in this because we found We also found.

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Madeleine Para: And thank you so much Jennifer That was really, really helpful, a lot of information will spend some time digesting it.

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Madeleine Para: But it just great dive into what the Yale project is doing so again, thank you so much for making the time for us this morning, you are welcome to stay on for the next 15 minutes if you'd like to hear more about what we're up to, but I do know how precious.

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Dr. Jennifer Carman (she/her): At the end, thank you once again for having me it's been really great to talk with you all.

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Madeleine Para: we're so glad to have you.

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Madeleine Para: So everybody as i'm sure you can tell already I am super excited that registration is open for the June 13 CCL international conference to 11 to 13.

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Madeleine Para: We will be back at the omni hotel in Washington DC and I encourage you to read through the conference landing page at CCL usa.org slash June conference.

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Madeleine Para: Speakers include heroes you're familiar with like Senator sheldon whitehouse and mark Reynolds.

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Madeleine Para: And it includes heroes that I think you'll love getting to know like wanda Ashley Williams of climate exchange and Alex flint with the Alliance for market solutions.

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Madeleine Para: New this year will be breakout sessions that are organized around our work with members of Congress.

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Madeleine Para: And that will help us all become more efficient in working with particular ones we have you know, maybe your House, democratic, progressive or your senate Republican, for example.

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Madeleine Para: we've also built in more social time into the conference, because we know you need to talk to each other, being apart so long during the pandemic.

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Madeleine Para: I think it's super cool that's the post conference lobbying is going to be done, as part of our first ever international week of action and lobbying.

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Madeleine Para: So, again read carefully through the conference page, please, and the faqs because we aren't going back to the path we're going into a whole new future with this.

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Madeleine Para: And let me say just a little bit more about lobbying.

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Madeleine Para: Our DC staff is seeing and hearing that Congressional buildings are starting to be more accessible again constituents coming in, for a meeting and that feels really, really good to know that the hill may be opening up again.

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Madeleine Para: And we still can't predict how it will be in June, giving everything that's going on in the world, however, if your liaison want to try to organize a team to lobby in person, because they'll be enough of the constituents in DC.

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Madeleine Para: Instead of a virtual meeting in June that's okay with us.

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Madeleine Para: One of the silver linings of the virtual lobbying that we've been doing during the pandemic is it you learn how to set up teams, how to practice ahead of time and how to get everybody in the right place during all those virtual lobby weeks.

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Madeleine Para: So if it makes sense to your liaison it could work to lobby in person on June 14 if people are there, instead of on zoom so you and your state coordinators and your liaisons and group leaders are going to know better than anybody else what's best to do so, relieving that in your hand.

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Madeleine Para: be aware that if you're thinking about this about lobbying in person it's absolutely imperative that you coordinate with the CCL leaders, so that we don't have a situation where folks are requesting duplicate meetings that doesn't make us look good to the members of Congress.

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Madeleine Para: We also want to help people come to Washington DC there is a reduced student registration and we have scholarship programs to help under representative groups of 10.

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Madeleine Para: Including bypass both people color and right of Center volunteers, the the link to apply is in the faqs on the conference web page so go check that out.

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Madeleine Para: I have another guest, I want to bring on now somebody that I love working with it's what a pet and Gil our senior development director because we're in the middle of our march appeal so in a new there.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: I am hi everyone as you might have noticed we're in the middle of our march monthly donor fundraising campaign, I want to point out that this one oh.

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Ricky Bradley, Information Technology Staff: Let me, can you start your video yeah Thank you.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: Can you see me.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: i'm trying to.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: It says you've stopped it ricky.

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Madeleine Para: We are the people that roll with whatever.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: just go and.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: I have a big smile on my face, and you can see me I can.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: start it, but it won't let me.

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Ricky Bradley, Information Technology Staff: When they try now.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: Oh yay okay hi.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: Okay, yes, very good and so as you might have noticed we're in the middle of our march monthly donor fundraising campaign.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: I want to point out that this is one of only two national fundraisers that we have each year, so it's really important for our organization.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: I also want to highlight a unique opportunity that we have this year and anonymous donor has agreed to make a $150,000 bonus gift.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: That only if we reach our goal of 15,000 in new or increase monthly evergreen donations.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: increase monthly support will allow us to scale our grassroots efforts in strategic states and strengthen our influence in Congress, at a time when it matters most.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: We need to keep Congress and the President focused on passing strong climate provisions this year.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: As of this morning we've raised $7,682 towards our goal of $15,000 in new and increase monthly evergreen donations.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: Please help us meet our goal and unlock this $150,000 bonus gift by increasing your monthly gift or by becoming a new monthly donor today, at whatever level works best for you Thank you so much.

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Madeleine Para: Thank you, and a you know you embody the spirit of CCL so beautifully in your approach to raising money for our work.

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Lynate Pettengill, Sr Development Dir, she/her/ella: To do it thanks.

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Madeleine Para: Now yep we love our work so everybody here's a few highlights from the last few weeks, first of all congratulations to the members of our two newest groups.

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Madeleine Para: At boto and I don't know how to say that college in name welcome and Minnesota West suburbs welcome, as well as a group called Yorkshire and the Humber in the UK, welcome to all of you.

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Madeleine Para: Just a few days ago, the Hawaii carbon cashback bill don't you like the sound of that the Hawaii carbon cashback bill passed the state house and goes on to the State Senate.

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Madeleine Para: Our volunteers were all over this, to make it happen so congratulations to CCL Hawaii and may the winds be at your back as the action moves to the hawaiian Senate.

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Madeleine Para: our counterparts in CCI that citizens climate international in Nigeria held a press conference on the new IPCC report and they had seven TV stations by print media and for radio stations that is just amazing I want to learn how they get immediate response like that.

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Madeleine Para: Here in the United States are conservative outreach coordinator meet abercrombie rock Atlantic conservative media tour last week.

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Madeleine Para: He had eight interviews across the MID Atlantic in the east coast five on radio and three on TV and that included alive appearance on CBS NBC I gave him a chance to promote our upcoming conservative climate leadership conference that's at the end of this month.

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Madeleine Para: And then let's talk about what you did across the country I love the action tracker it tells me that, despite February, being a short little month and it was very cloudy and my state.

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Madeleine Para: You were very busy you reported 113 outreach event 24 endorsement 74 meetings with community leaders 221 media pieces 2195 calls to Congress 276 social media actions with members of Congress.

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Madeleine Para: So thank you to everyone who took action last month, and a second Thank you to all of you who take the extra minute or two to add it to the action tracker on our Community website so that we know what all you did you were by February sunshine.

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Madeleine Para: The actions this month are to do whatever you can to help us reach or exceed our march fundraising goal and unlock that hundred and $50,000 matching gift.

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Madeleine Para: And a continued calling climate action and carbon pricing and all the ways that you can figure out to do that, there are a lot of suggestions for you in the March action sheet, so please take a little bit of time to have a look at that.

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Madeleine Para: And then that brings me to the context of the times that we find ourselves working in I want to say just a little bit about Russia invasion of Ukraine.

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Madeleine Para: it's a scary situation and it adds more instability into all of our lives and i'm sure you, like me feel just awful for the people that are enduring it.

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Madeleine Para: So, as you go through your daily life, you know you and others around you might be feeling more stressed and you may need to lean harder into the things that you do.

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Madeleine Para: To help challenging time so I encourage you to try to be gentle with yourself and the people around you sometimes an unexpected kind of needs more than you ever imagine.

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Madeleine Para: At the larger level the invasion changes the context of our climate work.

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Madeleine Para: In the United States were grappling with the impacts of fossil fuel dependency, both financially with the Sarin gas prices and politically with Russian oil and gas production.

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Madeleine Para: know and in the last week it's become clear that a number of our elected leaders, including the President himself are leaning into clean energy and climate action as a way to respond and that's very good.

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Madeleine Para: President Biden took the step of banning imports of Russian oil and gas after bipartisan pressure from Congress to do so.

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Madeleine Para: And that was just unimaginable a few weeks ago it's what the President said this week quote this crisis is stark reminder that to protect our economy over the long term, we need to become energy independent it should motivate us to accelerate a transition to clean energy vote.

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Madeleine Para: Yes to that.

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Madeleine Para: You know it's also clear that others in our country are using the invasion as a reason to promote more fossil fuel development or blame gas prices on climate policy.

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Madeleine Para: And we're hearing renewed cries of drill baby drill things like that, so you know as there always are there's opportunities and there's threats as the war unfolds, and as it impacts international relations and energy.

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Madeleine Para: So what can you do.

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Madeleine Para: Well, first of all, we can all hold our hearts open in the face of fear.

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Madeleine Para: And we can respond to calls to help the victims of war and then, above all, we can continue pushing for policies that accelerate the transition to clean energy.

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Madeleine Para: Yesterday I met with some of the CCL staff to discuss our response and one outcome is that will be revising our action tool to respond to this current and new situation.

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Madeleine Para: Because the calls for clean energy solutions need to be louder in the ears of our elected officials than the calls for more of drilling.

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Madeleine Para: We just discussed it only late yesterday, so I can't tell you when that work will be done yet, but watch for it for those action tools and particularly the updated.

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Madeleine Para: you'll also continue to get legislative updates from the Andy Richter and government affairs strategy bulletins from Tony sarna immediate suggestions from flannery Winchester.

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Madeleine Para: we're going to keep trying to get you information and things you can use as we keep responding to things that are happening out here in our world.

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Madeleine Para: So again, keep your eye out for them, because that situation is ever changing.

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Madeleine Para: So, in a nutshell, the most important thing you can do right now is to promote the notion that we can't drill our way to safety and security.

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Madeleine Para: And an essential response to rush in the grass when is the shift away from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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Madeleine Para: So you know, of course, as you've been doing, you can do it in conversations with friends in letters to the editor and an office on social media and then just continue the best you can be in the kinds of people that remind everyone around you what we love about humanity.

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Madeleine Para: So thank you stay connected.

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