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KeithMcNeill

@KeithMcNeill@mstdn.ca

Now retired, I was formerly the editor of the prize-winning Clearwater-North Thompson Times of Clearwater, BC, Canada

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Researchers utilize over 27,000 observations of monthly price indices from 121 countries, alongside detailed weather data from 1996 to 2021 to show that climate change helps cause inflation - and it will get worse

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/research-shows-climate-change-as-a-key-driver-of-global-inflation/

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At least 40% of all existing semiconductor manufacturing plants are in watersheds that are anticipated to experience high or extremely high water stress risk by 2030

https://theconversation.com/climate-change-puts-global-semiconductor-manufacturing-at-risk-can-the-industry-cope-225879?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationCA

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Are you a citizen or resident of Canada and concerned about climate change? Darryl Luscombe from Sointula, BC, has started an e-petition to Canada's Parliament stating support for the federal carbon tax. IMHO, this is important
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-4876

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If you add your name to the e-petition, don't forget to reply to the confirmation email that will be sent afterwards.

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"The single only way to preserve the chance of freedom and democracy, the only way to save this planet and humanity, is to tax extreme wealth."
– Erica Payne, Patriotic Millionaires

https://www.commondreams.org/news/testimony-to-un-panel-tax-the-rich-save-the-world

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“We cannot outrun the rising tides, but we will do what we can to protect our statehood, our spirit, our values.”
– Simon Koke, Tuvalu's minister of justice, communication and foreign affairs

https://eb.news/YL7oiTETTdiA via @ecobusinesscom

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Human societies produce huge amounts of excess heat. Turning it into electricity could play a key role in achieving a net-zero society

https://theconversation.com/thermoelectric-technologies-can-help-power-a-zero-carbon-future-218973?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationCA

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US scientists research drought-resistant plants that can thrive on land that is becoming too dry to farm. They face an uphill battle against heavily subsidized megacrops

https://apnews.com/article/guayule-dandelion-cassava-sorghum-millet-climate-crops-bde03a0f80220d9d8d3b0f32b7ffef9b?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=share

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How to survive a polycrisis. This article says Chartism helped England avoid a social collapse in the 1830s and 1840s. Petition for global carbon fee-and-dividend is modelled on The People's Charter

https://theconversation.com/historys-crisis-detectives-how-were-using-maths-and-data-to-reveal-why-societies-collapse-and-clues-about-the-future-218969?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton via @ConversationUK

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Alberta is reeling from the lack of water. Climate change is only part of the reason

@thetyee https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/19/Alberta-Brutal-Water-Reckoning/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190224

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“Passive house is the most reliable, cost-effective, and healthiest way to reach superb energy performance in architecture."
– Sara Bayer, Magnusson Architecture and Planning

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/02/the-promise-of-passive-house-design/

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Applying to all internal combustion vehicles 1.6 tonnes and over—and electric vehicles weighing two tonnes or more—the increase will have drivers of large vehicles paying C$26 per hour to park

@theenergymix https://www.theenergymix.com/paris-triples-parking-fees-for-bulky-polluting-suvs/

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Norwegian auto assistance company Viking says electric cars might be almost twice as good as fossil cars in the cold

https://electrek.co/2024/01/17/electric-vehicles-fail-lower-rate-than-gas-cars-extreme-cold/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=community.citizensclimate.org

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"We’re going to get cold, and we’re going to get hot, but there’s this relentless pressure toward warmer and warmer conditions caused by burning coal, oil, and natural gas.”
– Dr. Andrew Pershing, Climate Central

@theenergymix https://www.theenergymix.com/breaking-climate-change-made-canadas-hyper-warm-december-twice-as-likely/

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"The things that humans can attach status to are so fluid, we could be replacing all of it with things that essentially have no material footprint – or even better, have an ecologically positive one.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists?CMP=share_btn_tw

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“We are not moving into a 1.5C world; we are briefly passing through it in 2024. We will pass through the 2C (3.6F) world in the 2030s unless we take purposeful actions to affect the planet’s energy balance.”
– Dr. James Hansen

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/08/global-temperature-over-1-5-c-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_tw

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"In geological terms, we’re warming at a hellish pace; but that’s not how the 24/7 news cycle works."
– Bill McKibben

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/most-important-thing-2023-heat

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“The future of winter sport relies on how well we reduce emissions in the coming decades.”
– Dom Winter, Protect our Winters UK

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/26/ski-resorts-battle-for-a-future-as-snow-declines-in-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

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IMHO, the big question for COP28 should have been whether or not to have a global carbon tax. The question of whether or not we "phase out" or "phase down" fossil fuels was a red herring

https://newrepublic.com/article/177637/language-wars-decide-climate-fight

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@jfmezei capping oil/gas/coal extraction sounds simple but, I believe, would be difficult to do in practice.
There must be millions of oil and gas wells and coal mines in the world. How would the production from each be allocated? How would it be policed? What would the penalties be?
A global carbon tax would accomplish the same thing as a cap but be much less complicated to implement.
If accompanied by rebates to everyone, people also would be compensated for short-term opportunity losses.

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"When you live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce power is pointing a sheet of glass at the sun, filling a tanker with liquefied natural gas and shipping it halfway around the world is archaic."
– Roishetta Ozane and Bill McKibben

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/19/fossil-fuel-expansion-us-biden?CMP=share_btn_tw

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"If a future Conservative government axes the carbon tax, it will at the same time be axing the financing for the carbon tax rebates. Most Canadians will end up with less money in their pockets, not more."
– Tony Keller

@globeandmail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-what-if-axe-the-tax-leaves-most-people-poorer/?utm_medium=Referrer:+Social+Network+/+Media&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

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Researchers find that switching from working on-site to working remotely five days a week leads to a 54% reduction in a worker’s employment-related carbon footprint

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/12/take-this-to-hr-remote-work-is-good-for-the-climate/

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Who says Canada's carbon tax doesn't work?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-target-canada-emissions-1.7053746

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“There is no alternative to reducing emissions massively. These technologies are a distraction, a way to pretend we are dealing with the issue, but we aren’t.
– Pierre Friedlingstein, University of Exeter

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/10/climate-experts-warn-against-focus-technological-solutions-cop28?CMP=share_btn_tw

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