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Keith McNeill
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Now retired, I was formerly the editor of the Clearwater Times newspaper in Clearwater, BC, Canada. My special interest is global carbon fee-and-dividend - charge a fee on fossil fuels and distribute the revenue to everyone as equal dividends worldwide.
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Keith McNeill @keith65.bsky.social · Dec 26
What is global carbon fee-and-dividend?
Here's an opinion piece I wrote in 2017 while I was editor of the Clearwater Times newspaper in Clearwater, BC, Canada:
www.clearwatertimes.com/our-town/the...
The case for global carbon fee-and-dividend
In order to have a hope of being adequately effective, any climate change initiative will need to be global in scope.
www.clearwatertimes.com
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Why can Australian homeowners get rooftop solar installed in a week or less, for roughly 50 cents a watt, while Californians pay $3.30/w and wait months for interconnection?
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What's the real story with Australian rooftop solar?
Saul Griffith joins me to debunk the myths surrounding Australia's massive influx of solar energy.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Keeping global temperature rises since the pre-industrial period ideally below 1.5ºC, and definitely below 2.0ºC, is a bit complicated. The jitters are not scientifically meaningful. The long-term trends are
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RealClimate: 1.5ºC and all that
RealClimate: The Paris Agreement temperature limits are a little ambiguous and knowing where we are is tricky. The desire to keep global temperature rises since the pre-industrial, ideally below 1.5ºC and definitely below 2.0ºC, is a little bit complicated by the lack of definition in what constitutes the pre-industrial, uncertainties in what the temperature was in
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December 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"What is it that’s driving the climate crisis? It’s hyper consumption, overconsumption, and gift economies suggest that we don’t all need to own everything that we need in life."
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, author
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Lessons on Scaling Gift Economies—and How It Can Help the Planet - Inside Climate News
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to bind communities, offer purpose and reduce strain on the Earth.
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December 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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“What is our heritage that we will want to keep? And what is just a ruin we want to dismantle? That is a question we have to ask every time, and it requires some reflection.”
– Nicolas Masson, Mountain Wilderness
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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A hotter planet will likely mean fewer total hurricanes, but a higher percentage will be large, powerful storms
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What does climate change look like? This year's hurricane season is one example
The Atlantic hurricane season produced a normal number of storms, compared to more frequent storms in recent years. But the storms that did form were huge.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“It’s a fundamental error to treat these issues as mutually exclusive – climate solutions are also cost-of-living solutions."
– Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims
New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of living
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Rising sea temperatures, coral bleaching and reef degradation have destroyed breeding grounds, while erratic weather linked to warming oceans has shortened fishing seasons
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Barracuda, grouper, tuna – and seaweed: Madagascar’s fishers forced to find new ways to survive
Seaweed has become a key cash crop as climate change and industrial trawling test the resilient culture of the semi-nomadic Vezo people
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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"As long as you rely on a source of power that’s only available in a few places, the people who control those places will end up with inordinate wealth and power."
– Bill McKibben
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Although there are some interesting exceptions, “choosing less expensive options in each food group is a reliable way to lower the climate footprint of one’s diet," researchers say
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The climate case for cheap food
An analysis of diets worldwide reveals that lower-cost diets are often substantially less carbon-intensive than the meals people eat most often.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Canadians should take Trans Mountain’s reported profits with “a spoonful of salt,” according to Mark Kalegha, an energy finance analyst
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Is Trans Mountain’s Profitability an Accounting Illusion? | The Tyee
How the finances of Canada’s government-owned pipeline may look better than they are.
thetyee.ca
December 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Stalin’s embrace of Lysenko's work underpinned policies that failed to prevent crop failures and caused millions of deaths from famine during the 1930s
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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“2024 saw the first temporary exceedance of 1.5C, and our forecast for 2026 suggests this is possible again.”
– Nick Dunstone, UK Met Office.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels
Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time, says Hannah Ritchie of Sustainability by Numbers
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www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/sustainabl...
Can we break the human development-environment trade-off?
The opportunity to build a human-nature relationship that is not zero-sum.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Evidence from Canada, the United States and Europe shows that the people hardest hit by weather-related disasters are often those with the fewest resources to cope
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The climate insurance gap is widening, and it’s leaving marginalized Canadians behind
Climate disasters are rising and insurance costs are, too. Canada’s poorest are caught in the middle.
theconversation.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 10% of the world’s land is currently affected by salinity, and this may rise to 24%-32% due to the climate crisis
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The plants that thrive in salt: could halophytes help save coastal farming?
As rising seas salinise the soils of the Venice lagoon, scientists and chefs are turning to long-forgotten wild herbs
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"We were living on borrowed time but we’re heading towards crunch time, and we need to do things differently.”
– Prof Dan Bebber, University of Exeter
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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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“We’ve now given decision-makers what they need to prepare for climate outcomes they hope never happen, but can’t afford to ignore.”
– Nigel Arnell, University of Reading
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists
Scientists say government must prepare for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Experts warn that, under high-emission scenarios, future crop yields could decrease by a quarter, largely because of extreme weather events wreaking havoc on agriculture
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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“Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet."
– Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist
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Trump administration moves to dissolve national climate research lab in Colorado
The Trump administration is moving to dissolve the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Hydrogen indirectly “extends the lifetime” of methane in the atmosphere, leading to higher methane concentrations and greater warming
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www.carbonbrief.org/hydrogen-emi...
Hydrogen emissions are ‘supercharging’ the warming impact of methane - Carbon Brief
The warming impact of hydrogen has been “overlooked” in projections of climate change, authors of the latest “global hydrogen budget” say.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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“We are seeing changes in the heart of winter, when we expect the Arctic to be cold."
– Matthew Langdon Druckenmiller, National Snow and Ice Data Center
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The climate crisis is taking a toll. Iraq has recorded a 30% decline in precipitation and is in the grip of its worst drought in nearly a century
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing
Unless urgent action is taken life will be fundamentally altered for the ancient communities who live on its banks
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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"Emerging markets are no longer catching up; they are leading the shift to electric mobility."
Euan Graham, Ember
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Over a quarter of new cars sold so far this year are electric as emerging markets reshape the global EV race | Ember
Over a quarter of new cars sold so far this year are electric as emerging markets reshape the global EV race.
ember-energy.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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“The 1.5C limit [for rising global temperatures] and the net zero goal have reshaped policy, finance, litigation and sectoral rules, helping to rewire how states, markets and institutions work.”
– Bill Hare, Climate Analytics
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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"Even though we’ve crashed into that 1.5 threshold, far better that it be set there than at 2 degrees, in which case we might well be complacent in the face of even more destructive temperature rise."
– Rebecca Solnit
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM