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10A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2016 Monument: Astoria has struggled to maintain parks Continued from Page 1A “This would honor the immigrants that came here,” said Loran Mathews, who is involved with the Astoria Scan- dinavian Heritage Association. The park would be on city land but inanced through pri- vate donations. A $2,500 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation helped planners come up with a design proposal. Mathews, who does not have an estimate for how much the project would cost, said he hopes work could start by the midsummer festival’s 50th anni- versary next June. The Astoria City Coun- cil voted Monday night to direct Angela Cosby, the city’s parks director, to work with the heritage association on an agreement. The Parks Board had rec- ommended that the City Coun- cil support the project, but only if the heritage association agreed to adopt the park and commit to maintenance. The city has adopt- a-park agreements with the Friends of the Astoria Column at Coxcomb Hill and with the Hol- iday Inn Express for portions of the Maritime Memorial Park. Astoria has struggled to maintain parks, and a new mas- ter plan urges the city to con- centrate on preserving existing parks rather than expanding. A river viewing platform that had been installed by the Asto- ria Rotary Club in Peoples Park was removed in March because it had deteriorated. The city has used tourism dollars to con- tract maintenance of downtown greenery and the Astoria Riv- erwalk to a private company to help take pressure off city parks staff. But the City Council was reluctant to demand that the heritage association adopt Peo- ples Park as a condition of the project. Mathews described the project as a low maintenance monument, an enhancement to Peoples Park rather than a new park. Councilors appear willing to accept a less formal agreement. If an understanding is reached, the project would likely have to go before the city’s Historic Landmarks Commission for review. “I do not think that the increased level of maintenance would be signiicant enough to turn our backs on this wonder- ful opportunity that the Scan- dinavian Heritage Association is offering us,” said City Coun- cilor Zetty Nemlowill, whose father, the artist Roger McKay, did conceptual design work on the project. City Councilor Drew Her- zig also favored a more lexi- ble arrangement. “I don’t think the master plan was intended as a club to beat down community proposals like this,” he said. “So I really think we need to be a lit- tle bit more lexible.” Submitted Graphic The Scandinavian Immigrant Park would be off Marine Drive between 15th and 16th streets at Peoples Park. Divided: Scientists calculate most of the extra warming comes from humans Continued from Page 1A tweets of presidential nominee Donald Trump — a “hoax.” When it comes to science, there’s more than climate that divides America’s leaders and people, such as evolution, vac- cination and genetically modi- ied food. But nothing beats climate change for divisiveness. “It’s more politically polar- izing than abortion,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, direc- tor of the Yale Program on Cli- mate Change Communication. “It’s more politically polariz- ing than gay marriage.” Leiserowitz says his sur- veys show 17 percent of Americans, the fastest-grow- ing group, are alarmed by cli- mate change and want action now, with another 28 percent concerned but viewing it as a more distant threat. But there’s an often-vocal 10 percent who are dismissive, rejecting the concept of warming and the science. Sometimes dismissiveness and desire for action mix in one family. Rick and Julie Joyner of Fort Mill, South Carolina, are founders of MorningStar min- istries. Most of the people they associate with reject climate change. Their 31-year-old daughter, Anna Jane, is a cli- mate change activist. As part of a documentary a few years ago, Anna Jane introduced Rick to scientists who made the case for climate change. It did not work. He labels himself more skeptical than before. “They’re both stubborn and equally entrenched in their positions,” says Julie, who is often in the middle. “It doesn’t get ugly too often.” A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 What changed Tribalism People in the 1960s “had faith in science, had hope in science. Most people thought science was responsible for improving their daily lives,” says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences. Now “we see partisan polar- ization or ideological polariza- tion,” says Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University. The split with science is most vis- ible and strident when it comes to climate change because the nature of the global prob- lem requires communal joint action, and “for conservatives that’s especially dificult to accept,” Nisbet says. Climate change is more about tribalism, or who we identify with politically and socially, Nisbet and other experts say. Liberals believe in global warming, conservatives don’t. THE DAILY ASTORIAN T UESDAY E VENING the way mainstream scientists operate. Now she says, no one will even look at her for other jobs in academia. AP Photo/Manuel Valdes Scientist Oliver Grah measures the velocity of a stream of melt from Sholes Glacier on one of the slopes on Mount Baker in Washington last summer. Glaciers on Mount Bak- er and other mountains in the North Cascades are thin- ning and retreating. Dozens of scientific measurements show Earth is warming. Dave Woodard, a Clemson University political science professor and GOP consultant, helped South Carolina Repub- lican Bob Inglis run for the U.S. House (successfully) and the Senate (unsuccessfully). They’d meet monthly at Ing- lis’ home for Bible study, and were in agreement that global warming wasn’t an issue and probably was not real. After seeing the effects of warming irst-hand in Antarc- tica and Australia’s Great Bar- rier Reef, Inglis changed his mind — and was overwhelm- ingly defeated in a GOP pri- mary in 2010. Woodard helped run the campaign that beat him. “I was seen as crossing to the other side, as helping the Al Gore tribe, and that could not be forgiven,” Inglis says. Judy Curry, a Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist and self-described climate gad- ly, has experienced ostra- cism from the other side. She repeatedly clashed with for- mer colleagues after she pub- licly doubted the extent of global warming and criticized In 1997, then-Vice Pres- ident Gore helped broker an international treaty to reduce heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and gas. “And at that moment” says Leiserowitz, “the two parties begin to divide. They begin to split and go farther and farther and farther apart until we reach today’s environment where climate change is now one of the most polarized issues in America.” Consider lobster scientist Diane Cowan in Friendship, Maine, who expresses dismay. “I am deinitely bearing witness to climate change,” Cowan says. “I read about cli- mate change. I knew sea level was rising but I saw it and, until it impacted me directly, I didn’t feel it the same way.” Republican Jodi Crosson, a 55-year-old single mother and production and sales manager in Bexley, Ohio, thinks global warming is a serious problem because she’s felt the wrath of extreme weather and rising heat. But to her, it’s not quite as big an issue as the economy. Scott Tiller, a 59-year-old underground coal miner in West Virginia, has seen mine LISTINGS A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach after mine close, and says coal is getting a bad rap. “I think we’ve been treated unfairly and kind of looked down upon as polluters,” Tiller says. “They say the climate is changing, but are we doing it? Or is it just a natural thing that the Earth does?” Bridging differences Overwhelmingly, scien- tists who study the issue say it is man-made and a real prob- lem. Using basic physics and chemistry and computer simu- lations, scientists have repeat- edly calculated that most of the extra warming comes from humans, instead of nature. Dozens of scientiic measure- ments show Earth is warm- ing. Since 1997, the world has warmed by 0.44 degrees (0.25 degrees Celsius). Repeatedly explaining science and showing data doesn’t convince some people to change their core beliefs, experts say. So instead some climate activists and even sci- entists try to build bridges to communities that might doubt that the Earth is warming but are not utterly dismissive. The more people connect on a human level, the more people can “overcome these tribal attitudes,” Anna Jane Joyner says. “We really do have a lot more in common than we think.” Evening listings TUESDAY A UGUST 16 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! 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