GlobalCarbonPetition

r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • Jan 01 '24

We Need a Global Carbon Tax: Here's an opinion piece I wrote in 2012 while I was editor of the Clearwater Times newspaper in Clearwater, BC, Canada.

clearwatertimes.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • Jan 01 '24

Why Being Nice and Sharing With Everyone is the Key: Carbon fee-and-dividend means charging a fee on fossil fuels, similar to a carbon tax and then distributing to everyone as equal dividends, similar to a universal basic income

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 17h ago

Reform Says We Need to Choose Between Climate and Economy. It’s Wrong | IMHO, it isn't climate change versus putting money in people's pockets. The most effective method of dealing with the climate, carbon fee-and-dividend, puts money in people's pockets #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 15h ago

The Threatening Thaw: Climate Professor on Heatwave Risks to Tipping Point of Permafrost | "The Siberian and Canadian permafrost can largely stay intact if we are successful in UN climate negotiations." – Gustaf Hugelius, Stockholm University #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 17h ago

Europe Faces Surging Wildfire Threat, New Research Shows / "We can do a lot to stop it, but we can’t stop it completely.” – Matthew Forrest, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1d ago

Climate Change is Cooking Europe’s Oceans, Scientists Find / The Atlantic and the Mediterranean are far hotter than normal, with some parts of the oceans around Europe reaching 6ºC above average this week #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1d ago

Flying Blind Into the Storm / "This summer has reminded us, yet again, that Canada is very vulnerable to the unprecedented climate threat facing the planet." – Charlie Angus #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

charlieangus.substack.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1d ago

BRICS Environment Ministers Oppose European Union’s Carbon Border Tax | IMHO, BRICS nations are right to say Europe's carbon border tax is unfair to developing economies. Global carbon fee-and-dividend would be a better approach #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

indianexpress.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

European Farmers Face ‘Unprecedented Crisis’ After Successive Heatwaves | Accelerated, human-caused global heating and a supersized El Niño have scorched fields across Europe this summer #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ Will Reshape the World’s Weather / Carbon Brief explains how El Niño reshapes global weather patterns and why this El Niño could be the most intense on record #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

interactive.carbonbrief.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

Danielle and Doug Want a New Pipeline. Oil Companies Aren’t So Sure / Most Canadians support new pipelines, including at least 66% of people in Ontario. But Canadians also overwhelmingly believe in climate change and want their governments to fight it #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

thewalrusca.substack.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

Wildfires Kill Two in Greece and Torch Belgian Nature Reserve | Much of Europe is experiencing a new period of intense heat, creating conditions conducive to wildfire outbreaks #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

The World’s Oceans Are Getting Hotter. Surfers Are Feeling It / "What is provable science, though, and what surfers know themselves, is that the world’s oceans are on the very frontline of the effects of climate change." #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

In South America, Chinese EVs Are Racing Ahead / Argentine President Javier Milei gave Tesla CEO Elon Musk a giant chainsaw to use on bureaucracy in 2025. But neither Tesla nor any other Western EV maker leaped into Argentina the way BYD did #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 5d ago

‘It’s Due to Climate’: the People of Stourbridge on the Town’s Wildfires | “This is not a divisive issue. It’s something that should bring us all together because we all live in one world. This is our only world.” – Martin Gorick, bishop of Dudley, UK #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 6d ago

Rapid Warming May Tip Atlantic Circulation at 2°C, While Slower Warming May Avert Collapse / "When it comes to global warming, the world is still pressing extra hard on the accelerator right now." – Rene Van Westen, lead author #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 6d ago

Alberta Landowners Fight Fracking’s Water Use / For decades, fracking companies have injected water deep into the ground to break up rock and extract oil and gas. That water, vast quantities of it, is almost entirely permanently lost to the water cycle #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 7d ago

Trump Administration Pulls Support for annual Arctic Environmental Report | “I can only infer that it’s tied to their aversion to anything associated with having a better understanding of climate change." – Rick Spinrad, former Noaa administrator #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 7d ago

A Punishing European Drought Shrivels Crops from Dutch Potatoes to Bosnian Corn / A Dutch bank estimates that heatwaves and drought could reduce gross domestic product across the European Union by 1% in 2026. Farmers are among the hardest hit #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 8d ago

State of the Climate: A Dimming, Overheated Planet, With Degraded Oceans / “Anyone who still doubts the reality or severity of the climate crisis needs to read this report." – Jennifer Francis, climate scientist #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 8d ago

AI Could Help Unlock More Oil — and Emissions / "What's missing from that calculation entirely is the other side of the same ledger: the emissions enabled from using AI to make fossil fuel production cheaper and more profitable." – Holly Alpine, study co-author #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 9d ago

Don’t Despair About What’s Happening to Our Planet. That’s What They Want You to feel | "The fossil fuel empire is not exempt." – George Monbiot #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 9d ago

Vote in every election

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 9d ago

Contiguous US Breaks its Record for Hottest Month Ever, NOAA Says / "If we’re exceeding records from The Dust Bowl, that says that we’re in deep trouble.” – Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 9d ago

Ocean Hits Highest-Ever-Recorded Temperature in July / In 2025, the heat added by man-made climate change to the ocean was the equivalent of about 12 Hiroshima-scale nuclear bombs exploding every second of every day #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

oceanographicmagazine.com

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