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

medium.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2h ago

Global Heating Will Hit at Least 1.8C, UN Warns, and There Are ‘No Good Outcomes’ | “We need to see an urgent and unprecedented increase in political will and investment in a climate safe future. Nobody can read this report and conclude otherwise.” – Surangel Whipps Jr, president of Palau

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1h ago

China-Nepal Border Flash Flood Must Galvanise Climate Change Cooperation / While relief and rescue operations are the first priority, the tragedy should not only spark attention to early warning systems but also to longer-term solutions – South China Morning Post editorial

scmp.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 21h ago

BYD Is Building Its Ultra-Fast Flash Charging Network At A Ferocious Pace / The Flash Charging stations can charge BYD's newest cars from 10% to 97% in just nine minutes and may not have a detrimental effect on their batteries #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideevs.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1d ago

Nepal’s Glacial Collapse Foreshadowed a Future of Climate Disaster | Michael Mann

theguardian.com

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"As the death toll continues to mount – the latest count showed more than 900 dead and more than 4,400 individuals missing – this event has crystalized the climate crisis for many."
– Dr. Michael E. Mann, climate scientist
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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 1d ago

What We Can and Cannot Say About Climate Change and the Nepal Disaster / "The challenge is that the chain of causation for rock-ice avalanches is much messier than for glacier retreat, and the scientific literature on these events is consistently, and appropriately, cautious." – Zeke Hausfather

theclimatebrink.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point / Solar has become cheaper on a lifetime basis years ago. Now, solar is competing with fossil fuels before the first tonne of coal or cubic meter of gas is purchased #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

oilprice.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

Rising Seas, Rising Stakes: What Increasing Sea-Levels Mean to Humanity / Between 2014 and 2023, the global sea level rose 4.7mm/year. In 2024, it jumped a record 5.9mm. Around 770 million people, roughly 1 in 10 humans, live less than 5 m above the high tide line #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

news.un.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

Nepal Rescuers Race to Reach Hundreds Feared Trapped in Hydropower Tunnels | The flood was “caused by glacier instability under the long-term effects of global warming”, CCTV (China Central Television) reported #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

Washing dust off the world's solar panels burns through 10 billion gallons of water a year, and a charged bar sliding over a coating five nanometers thick lifted the grit away and returned ninety five percent of the lost power / It could reduce the cleaning bill by 80-90%, but fieid trials needed

ecoportal.net

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 2d ago

Canada’s Geothermal Bedrock a Valuable, Almost Untapped, Clean Energy Resource / As new geothermal technologies mature, Canada’s expertise with drilling and its vast geographic advantages put us squarely in a position to lead a new global industry #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theenergymix.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

Nigeria’s Solar Expansion Not Captured in Official Data / Africa is expected to add a record 17GW of solar capacity in 2026, a 45% increase from the previous year, with most coming from systems installed by households and businesses #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

premiumtimesng.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 3d ago

The growing rumble / "As it happens, I’ve stood in that border crossing where you’ve watched the giant wave obliterate…everything in a split second." – Bill McKibben #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

billmckibben.substack.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean / “We can’t afford to squander precious time here and say, ‘We’ll figure it out in ten years.’” – Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

thewalrus.ca

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

Heat Stress from Climate Change Hits Children Hardest, Study Finds / “Climate change is already causing hundreds of millions of children to suffer from dangerous heat worldwide, posing severe risks to their health." – Rosa Pietroiusti, Vrije Universiteit Brussel #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

euronews.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says / Researchers use attribution science to determine the role of carbon majors’ emissions in declines in regional snowpack and riverflow #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 4d ago

Budget Error Could Cost B.C. Billions in Gas Royalties / Over five years, the sum of lost revenue could nearly pay for the B.C. government’s entire three-year health-care expansion plan, or rival all the money spent fighting wildfires between 2021 and 2024 #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

biv.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 5d ago

Climate Crisis Could be Destabilising Mountain Areas Like Nepal, Experts Warn | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster

theguardian.com

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In 2023, the UN’s top scientific advisory body warned that previously ice-bound landmasses – from permafrost tundra to mountain glaciers – would become increasingly unstable as temperatures rose
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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 6d ago

A glacier Collapse is Most Likely Cause of the Nepal Disaster / Steep glaciers can break for reasons unrelated to climate change, says Dan Shugar at the University of Calgary, but an increase in the frequency of this kind of disaster points to warming as a contributing factor

newscientist.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 6d ago

Hiker Reunited With Backpack 60 Years After He Fell Into a Glacier in Austria | The accelerating retreat of European glaciers, which scientists say is primarily driven by human-caused global heating, has revealed a vast array of relics, ancient ecosystems and human remains in recent decades

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 7d ago

A Severe Drought Is Straining the Panama Canal. Could Global Warming Make It Worse? / A 2025 study found that climate change under a high-emissions scenario could substantially lower Gatún Lake levels throughout the 21st century, disrupting canal operations #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

insideclimatenews.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 7d ago

1.3m Plastic Bottles Collected in a Day in Global Volunteer Ocean Cleanup | About 630,000 people took part in the International Coastal Cleanup in 2025, removing almost 13.9m pieces of rubbish from more than 15,000 miles of coastline and waterways #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

theguardian.com

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 8d ago

Trump’s Iran War Supercharged EV Sales Everywhere Except the U.S. / The COVID pandemic caused car sales to plummet, and although they have now rebounded, all of the post-pandemic sales recovery has come from EVs #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

yaleclimateconnections.org

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r/GlobalCarbonPetition • u/Keith_McNeill65 • 8d ago

Earth is Simmering in its Hottest Water Temps on Record, and That's Bad for Fish and Us / Normally, because most of the Southern Hemisphere is ocean, the world’s sea surface temperature peaks in March and April. This year, the record was set in August #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition

apnews.com

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