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Our Extra Blanket of CO2
The Natural Greenhouse
Effect naturally increases
earth’s temperature by 70oF
The Enhanced Greenhouse
Effect has artificially increased
earth’s temperature by 1.4oF
Future
change
depends
on our
action
now
+6
13 October 2015
www.ClimateScoreboard.org
VIDEO http://vimeo.com/105282384
“So if there is
one thing I
would like to
see, it’d be for
us to be able
to price the
cost of carbon
emissions”
The Best Solution - Carbon Fee & Dividend
Oil, Gas,
and Coal
Fossil Fuel
Companies
US Treasury
Department
Pay $100/ton
Raise prices
VIDEO
At extraction
point
http://vimeo.co
m/105254387
100% refund
Fossil fuelbased
products
Expensive
Non
fossil
products
Cheap
US
Households
The Best Solution - Carbon Fee & Dividend
Oil, Gas,
and Coal
Fossil Fuel
Companies
US Treasury
Department
Pay $100/ton
Raise prices
At extraction
point
100% refund
Fossil fuelbased
products
Expensive
Non
fossil
products
Cheap
US
Households
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Economists & Conservatives Agree
“It’s not a tax if the
government doesn’t
keep the money”
George Shultz,
Secretary of
State to Reagan
“... tax those things
we would like to
have less of”
Gregory Mankiw,
Harvard Professor
& economic advisor
to George W. Bush
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Conservative Policy
Fast
Cheap
Simple
Scalable
Predictable
International
Preferable to EPAregulation & big gov’t
Carbon Fee and Dividend
In Ten Years, Clean Energy Becomes
Cheaper than Carbon-based Energy
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Already Accounting for a Carbon Fee
American Electric Power
Microsoft
BP
PG&E
Chevron
Shell
ConocoPhillips
Walt Disney
Delta Air lines
Duke Energy
DuPont
ExxonMobil
General Electric
Google
Walmart
Wells Fargo
Large Companies
Prepared to Pay Price on
Carbon
Dec 9 2013
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Border Tax Adjustments
Price Carbon
or Pay a
Border Tariff
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Proven Success in Canada
●Started in 2008
●$30/ton
●Fuel use down
●GDP up
●Jobs up
●Popular
Sales of petroleum fuels subject to BC carbon tax
Carbon Fee and Dividend
Good for the
Economy and
the Climate
How Will CFD Impact the Economy?
Nationwide study by
Regional Economic
Models, Inc (REMI)
Millions of new jobs
Jobs
Regional Economic Modeling Inc
REMI: Rapid US Emission Reductions
Regional Economic
Modeling Inc
CFD
REMI: Household Refunds Increase
Regional Economic
Modeling Inc
$400 per month per household
REMI: 225,000 Lives Saved
Regional Economic
Modeling Inc
Due to avoided air pollution
REMI: Report Summary
Employment ● 2 million more jobs
Climate
Fiscal
● Reduces carbon dioxide
● Increases household incomes
Humanitarian ● Saves Lives
Economic
● $1.3 trillion more GDP
No economic case against Carbon Fee
Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL)
● Founded in 2007
● 25,000 members
Singular Mission
Lobby Congress to pass
Carbon Fee and Dividend
● 310 chapters
Chapters in formation
VIDEO http://tiny.cc/SpeakUp4Climate
CCL: Methodology
● Focus on solutions
● Instill hope
● Educate constituents
● Develop strong
respectful relationships
with elected officials
VIDEO http://tiny.cc/CCL_2014
CCL: Non-partisan Congressional Briefing
CCL: Progress
CCL: Join an Action Team
Outreach
● Presentations
● Education
● Tabling
Media
● Print & TV
● Social media
● Editorial boards
Build
political
will
Enlist Influencers
Agriculture / Military ●
Business/Finance ●
Faith leaders ●
Government
Liaisons ●
Paris COP21 ●
Local carbon tax ●
George P. Shultz
Former Secretary of State
Don Cheadle
Philanthropist, actor, director
Dr. James Hansen
Columbia Univ., NASA (ret.)
Bob Inglis
Former Congressman (R-SC)
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Climate Science Ctr, Texas Tech
Sam Daley-Harris
Founder of RESULTS
Dr. Daniel Kammen
Energy Lab, UC Berkeley
Jose Aguto
Friends Committee Nat’l Leg.
David W. Titley
Rear Admiral, US Navy (ret.)
Dr. Hahrie Han
Political Scientist, UCSB
CCL: Advisory Board
Join our intro call
Every Wednesday
7pm Central
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