If you lived in Corsicana, 60 miles south of Dallas, you had 21 inches of rain Saturday, October 24. That’s what Chicago gets in seven months. In San Antonio high water swept a man through a drainage tunnel and into a lake, where he was rescued.
Influential Voices Urging Carbon Fees
Three very influential international figures are saying that the best way to address climate change is to put a fee on carbon.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim expressed that view October 7 during a panel discussion at the joint annual meeting of their organizations in Lima.
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Voters are Ready to Depoliticize the Climate Debate
American voters are eager to “depoliticize” climate change and clean energy, says Kristen Soltis Anderson, one of three leading Republican pollsters who conducted a survey released September 28.
“At the moment some of the louder voices in the party are dominating this debate,” she told The New York Times. “But as we move out of the entertainment phase of the (presidential) campaign and look at more of the policy platforms, there’s a way for Republicans to talk about this that depoliticizes climate.”
Study Shows Low-Income Households Not Impacted by Carbon Fee
The word “bandwagon” is probably too strong at this point, but the more that people scrutinize carbon fees, the better they look and the broader the support they have. Some skeptics have claimed that a fee, because it would be passed along, would hurt those with low or modest incomes. True, it is regressive, but there are simple ways to reimburse those who are most vulnerable.