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Political elites’ partisan beliefs about climate change Political elites’ partisan beliefs about climate change, Furnas, Alexander C, LaPira, Timothy M, Benegal, Salil D

Here’s the open access article at Environmental Research Communication iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

someone in ny is gonna take this as a challenge.

Environmental Research Communications LETTER Political elites' partisan beliefs about climate change OPEN ACCESS Alexander C Furnas'*®, Timothy M LaPira? O and Salil D Benegal' © Addressing climate change requires political elites to share a basic set of facts about climate science, yet political elites in the United States are divided in their views about climate change. We document this using the first large-scale survey of over 3,500 U.S. political elites-including elected officials, staffers, regulators, lobbyists, and policy professionals—to assess the partisan divide in beliefs about climate change held by political elites. We show near-unanimous agreement among the Democratic elite on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring, primarily caused by humans, and widely recognized by scientists. In contrast, substantial minorities of Republican elites reject these scientific facts, with fewer than half affirming anthropogenic climate change and nearly one-third endorsing a climate-related conspiracy theory. Comparing elites to the general public, we find that political elites are more aligned with climate science, but partisan gaps among elites are as wide as those observed in mass opinion. Regression analyses show partisan identity explains far more variation in elite climate beliefs than ideology, trust in science, or broader conspiratorial predispositions. These findings suggest that partisan polarization among elites reflects not only strategic electoral behavior but also privately held attitudes.

I've got a new paper out today with @timlapira.bsky.social and @salilb.bsky.social in ERC showing that party ID strongly structures political elites' beliefs about climate change. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Ever wonder if political elites’ beliefs about climate change are partisan? If so have I got a new article for you!

Elites believe climate science more than voters, but there’s still a partisan divide.

w/ @salilb.bsky.social & @alexanderfurnas.com

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Really fun experience working on this paper with @owasow.bsky.social. When you think about it, it's just two Black and Jewish guys studying the effects of a Black and Jewish partnership to build 5,000 Black schools in the rural South on participation in the Civil Rights Movement

happy birthday/merry Festivus+Christmas+all the other holidays!

(doing my best Joe Girardi impression now going 'it's not what you want to see.')

Kolek +19 right now!

yup, in this case masculinity as the aesthetic. (thinking in particular of @meredithconroy.bsky.social 's work here)

*yells at Immaculate Grid to replace the Cy Young column with the Old Hoss Radbourn or Will White column*

Hey, it's just like the Knicks defense

and making things like rooftop solar cheap/affordable for individuals to own doesn't solve it either. important step yes, but utilities also see things like this as a threat to their own monopolies on various markets and they + interest groups are fighting to protect those monopolies.

yup. making clean energy cheap means you're still left with fossil interest groups and utilities fighting tooth and nail (and likely more desperately) to protect their fossil fuel holdings' values and avoid being left with stranded assets.

truth. a goddamn hero.

hello please send some to upstate NY. it's stupid cold and snowing/sleeting up here and I would like warm bread. (will trade soup in return)

stupidly cheap. should have been $15, but for Hochul

yup. i saw this work amazingly well in Singapore and NYC, and both had great bus + train transit networks. can't do this in other cities without transit alternatives.

Do it! Also these are delightful. (I cracked up at the Mario-gluten.)

The defense tonight has looked so flat. Ugh.

the Baghdad Bob memes from 2003, but now it's CBS.

tell me that Mitch and OG are off the court without telling me that Mitch and OG are off the court

yup. and now Nurse and Maxey throwing tantrums when they finally call one.

We've done pretty well on signing free agent starters. Tanaka was an absolute stud for us and I still miss him. Kuroda was awesome, understated and so reliable. I really like Fried.

Position players though... lolsob. Really terrible deals (DLsbury) and guys who we never went after (Harper/Seager)

thinking more about the big roster moves for the 09 title run - CC was an icon, no complaints on that signing. love that man forever.

Teixeira was excellent the first four years, the last four were awful (2.6 bWAR total the last 4 years, 19.2 across the deal).

AJ Burnett, LOL.

yup. I think Fay Vincent suspending Steinbrenner was the best thing that could have happened to the Yankees. let Stick cook.

but as for FA signings, we've been bad at this for a while. even when the new stadium was built.

I'm not gonna be that nostalgic for George, because under George it's possible that he goes nuts signing every star FA to try and build a team around Judge.

but equally possible that he'd trade Judge away at the 2015 or 2016 trade deadline, Schlittler/Gil more recently, and we have no farm.

all our position player prospects either stagnate (Wells/Volpe) or fall apart (Gary) under Boone, who refuses to actually hold anyone accountable and just says "it's right in front of us" every press conference.

i'm expecting no better for Jasson or Spencer Jones. argh. at least I have the Knicks

ah yes, trust the guy who has had three years in the major and keeps putting up a .660ish OPS *every* year with the same flaws and worsening plate discipline.

i hate this FO. maybe I wouldn't be so annoyed if we had a coach/management that helps the young players develop, but Boone is *awful*

It's fucking embarrassing. They lost in the World Series two years ago, the contention window is wide open and they have a generational hitter with two straight MVP seasons, and they're doing absolutely nothing to fix all of the issues in the bullpen and the batting lineup.

i absolutely love this.