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Jeff Nesbit is a research affiliate with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communications and executive director of Climate Nexus, a non-profit organization that works on climate and clean energy issues and solutions. He was the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation during the Bush and Obama administrations, where he helped craft the legislative and public affairs strategy that led to the passage of the bipartisan America COMPETES Act. He was also former Vice President Dan Quayle’s communications director at the White House, and former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s public affairs chief at the Food and Drug Administration, where he was instrumental in the agency’s successful efforts to regulate the tobacco industry and ban the marketing of cigarettes to children. He was a national journalist with Knight-Ridder newspapers and others prior to that, and writes regular opinion pieces for The New York Times, Time and U.S. News & World Repor
May 14, 2021 05:20 AM EDT
After receiving criticism from his bombing at SNL, Elon Musk faces another set of media fire after calling for Carbon tax on Twitter.
It is high time there was a carbon tax! Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2021
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Elon Musk recently reaffirmed his support for a carbon tax in the United States, a previously stated position. According to a 2020 poll, two-thirds of American voters support Musk s proposal for a carbon tax. Musk said in a tweet that it is about time for a carbon tax. This is similar to a sentiment he expressed earlier this year on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Elon Musk disclosed that he consulted with the Biden administration regarding the possibilities of imposing a carbon tax in the United States while sharing his experiences with the noted podcaster.
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Three years ago, I had a baby. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that she is extremely cute, and I enjoy being her mother. A few months after her birth, I was scrolling on my phone, and I came across news of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It described a future world that will have experienced 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming. In this world, the oceans are acidifying, and most coral reefs have been bleached to death; hundreds of millions of people face severe drought, and even more face deadly heat waves. The kicker? This planet the 1.5-degree-warmer one was the best-case scenario. Scientists were using the report to argue that we should try to shoot for that. The Paris climate accord aims to limit the global-temperature increase to “below 2 degrees Celsius.” At present, both goals seem like a stretch. According to the U.N., all of the world’s current pledges would only cut carbon emissions by one