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Monument: Astoria has struggled to maintain parks
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“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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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.”
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