Claim: Weather Catastrophes are “Pearl Harbour” Opportunities to Implement a Carbon Tax

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Claim: Weather Catastrophes are “Pearl Harbour” Opportunities to Implement a Carbon Tax
 September 1, 2018   
 

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Mark Reynolds, group executive director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, hopes this time Congress will act to implement a carbon tax, instead of letting another politically useful catastrophe slide by without meaningful climate action.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/01/claim-weather-catastrophes-are-pearl-harbour-opportunities-to-implement-a-carbon-tax/

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An Open Letter About Climate to U.S. Politicians Running for Office in 2018
Anthony Watts / 1 day ago September 2, 2018   

Guest opinion by Bob Tisdale

Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen:

I suspect many of you have been and will be using global warming and climate change as issues during your campaigns this election year. Let me call attention to a quote from revered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s 2002 book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World.

It may be the first time you’ve read this quote, but I believe some of you may use it or hear it a good number of times between now and election day. From Statecraft, under the heading of HOT AIR AND GLOBAL WARMING, which is part of Chapter 11 Capitalism and its Critics, Margaret Thatcher wrote (my boldface and ellipses):

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/09/02/an-open-letter-to-u-s-politicians-running-for-office-in-2018-about-climate/